diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b76e390..a5e2595 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-b98eef2c356b73e586a40a93896fb423  votca-tools-1.2.3_pristine.tar.gz
+f6b1efc6fa3b5c787846f7833ce8e467  votca-tools-1.2.4_pristine.tar.gz
diff --git a/votca-tools-1.2.3-boost-1.53.patch b/votca-tools-1.2.3-boost-1.53.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4aa7adb..0000000
--- a/votca-tools-1.2.3-boost-1.53.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Victor Ruehle <ruehle@votca.org>
-# Date 1359258783 25200
-# Branch stable
-# Node ID f26d7ee778d666babe7f58ae3770b4f3d997aa99
-# Parent  d10dec78492a78ad6709e686416615fc8b43c896
-fix build with boost-1.53 (fixes issue 131)
-
-diff -r d10dec78492a -r f26d7ee778d6 include/votca/tools/tokenizer.h
---- a/include/votca/tools/tokenizer.h	Sun Dec 02 21:09:27 2012 -0700
-+++ b/include/votca/tools/tokenizer.h	Sat Jan 26 20:53:03 2013 -0700
-@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@
-         std::vector<std::string> tmp;
-         ToVector(tmp);
-         v.resize(tmp.size());
--        transform(tmp.begin(), tmp.end(), v.begin(),
--            boost::lexical_cast<T, std::string>);
-+        typename std::vector<T>::iterator viter = v.begin();
-+        typename std::vector<std::string>::iterator iter;
-+        for(iter = tmp.begin(); iter!=tmp.end(); ++iter, ++viter)
-+            *viter = boost::lexical_cast<T, std::string>(*iter);
-     }
-     
- private:
diff --git a/votca-tools.spec b/votca-tools.spec
index da120f2..7f5333d 100644
--- a/votca-tools.spec
+++ b/votca-tools.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 Name:		votca-tools
-Version:	1.2.3
-Release:	6%{?dist}
+Version:	1.2.4
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	VOTCA tools library
 Group:		Applications/Engineering
 License:	ASL 2.0
 URL:		http://www.votca.org
 Source0:	http://votca.googlecode.com/files/%{name}-%{version}_pristine.tar.gz
-# Fix build against newer boost, already fixed upstream
-Patch0:	    	votca-tools-1.2.3-boost-1.53.patch
 
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ This package contains development headers and libraries for votca-tools.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1 -b .boost153
 
 %build
 mkdir %{_target_platform}
@@ -78,6 +75,10 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvotca_tools.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Sep 05 2014 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.2.4-1
+- Update to 1.2.4
+- Drop obsolete patch
+
 * Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-6
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild