diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4a010a..fb9b4d9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 alpine-2.00.tar.bz2
 /re-alpine-2.02.tar.bz2
+/README.fedora
+/re-alpine-2.03.tar.bz2
diff --git a/alpine.spec b/alpine.spec
index 4225f76..fd7ebbe 100644
--- a/alpine.spec
+++ b/alpine.spec
@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@
 
 Summary: powerful, easy to use console email client
 Name: alpine
-Version: 2.02
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Version: 2.03
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 License: ASL 2.0
 Group: Applications/Internet
 URL: http://re-alpine.sourceforge.net/ 
 Source0:  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/re-alpine/re-alpine-%{version}%{?pre}.tar.bz2
+Source1:  README.fedora
+
 
 # Using "Conflicts" instead of Obsoletes because while alpine is substantially
 # compatible with pine the change to Unicode breaks important user
@@ -26,14 +28,6 @@ BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
 
 Provides: re-alpine = %{version}-%{release}
 
-# short-term workaround until gcc is fixed
-# http://bugzilla.redhat.com/496400
-Patch1: alpine-2.00-gcc44_reply_hack.patch
-
-## upstreamable patches
-# this one maybe already, recall grumblings onlinst awhile back -- Rex
-Patch50: re-alpine-2.02-openssl.patch
-
 #BuildRequires: automake libtool
 BuildRequires: gettext
 BuildRequires: hunspell
@@ -74,8 +68,7 @@ GNU Build System's autotools.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n re-alpine-%{version}
 
-%patch1 -p1 -b .gcc44_reply_hack
-%patch50 -p1 -b .openssl
+cp -p %{SOURCE1} .
 
 #autoreconf -f -i
 
@@ -114,7 +107,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc README LICENSE doc/tech-notes.txt
+%doc README.fedora README LICENSE doc/tech-notes.txt
 %ghost %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/pine.conf
 %ghost %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/pine.conf.fixed
 %{_bindir}/alpine
@@ -130,6 +123,12 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Dec 20 2012 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> 2.03-2
+- add README.fedora
+
+* Thu Dec 20 2012 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> 2.03-1
+- re-alpine-2.03 (#880328,#888204)
+
 * Wed Jul 18 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.02-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8d6ff1a..b5c5f32 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-5e75826b15f05674856be8618bdefdfb  re-alpine-2.02.tar.bz2
+5b6f93ec7414c2a794480691a3beae24  README.fedora
+566d269d4bd43aba68f377110a6295d5  re-alpine-2.03.tar.bz2