diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4b87bbb..80e9cdf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /hspell-1.3.tar.gz
+/hspell-1.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/0001-require-local-module-explicitly.patch b/0001-require-local-module-explicitly.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a02a581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-require-local-module-explicitly.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From 4573c39c4a5bfbcd36941c2ead3d4d93d9ac85e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.technion.ac.il>
+Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:28:03 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] require local module explicitly
+
+this allows build hspell when perl runs in taint mode which does not
+include the current directory in @INC
+---
+ binarize-desc.pl | 2 +-
+ genprefixes.pl   | 2 +-
+ pmerge           | 2 +-
+ 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/binarize-desc.pl b/binarize-desc.pl
+index dbf0b1c..f62ebc6 100755
+--- a/binarize-desc.pl
++++ b/binarize-desc.pl
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
+ 
+ use Carp;
+ 
+-require "PrefixBits.pl";
++require "./PrefixBits.pl";
+ 
+ # "perl -w" warns about variables only used once (it assumes they are a
+ # typo). This ugliness gets rid of this warning. Is there a more sensible way?
+diff --git a/genprefixes.pl b/genprefixes.pl
+index 450a7ca..9ae9e50 100755
+--- a/genprefixes.pl
++++ b/genprefixes.pl
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ #!/usr/bin/perl -w
+ 
+-require "PrefixBits.pl";
++require "./PrefixBits.pl";
+ 
+ sub find_prefixes {
+ 	my $INQUISITIVE_HE=shift;
+diff --git a/pmerge b/pmerge
+index 83ad949..9ceb9de 100755
+--- a/pmerge
++++ b/pmerge
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
+ use IO::File;
+ use Carp;
+ 
+-require "PrefixBits.pl";
++require "./PrefixBits.pl";
+ 
+ # "perl -w" warns about variables only used once (it assumes they are a
+ # typo). This ugliness gets rid of this warning. Is there a more sensible way?
+-- 
+2.9.4
+
diff --git a/hspell.spec b/hspell.spec
index 148e80f..cd0d28c 100644
--- a/hspell.spec
+++ b/hspell.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 Summary: A Hebrew spell checker
 Name: hspell
-Version: 1.3
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.4
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: AGPLv3
 Group: Applications/Text
 URL: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/
 Source: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: 0001-require-local-module-explicitly.patch
 
 BuildRequires: hunspell-devel, perl-generators, zlib-devel
 
@@ -14,12 +15,14 @@ Hspell is a Hebrew SPELLer and morphological analyzer. It provides a mostly
 spell-like interface (gives the list of wrong words in the input text), but can
 also suggest corrections (-c). It also provides a true morphological analyzer
 (-l), that prints all known meanings of a Hebrew string.
+Hspell 1.4 still follows the old (pre June 2017) spelling standard of the Academy.
 
 %description -l he
 Hspell הוא מאיית ומנתח צורני עברי, המספק מנשק דמוי-spell - פולט רשימה של המילים
 השגויות המופיעות בקלט. Hspell מקפיד מאוד כללי האקדמיה העברית לכתיב חסר ניקוד
 ("כתיב מלא").  כמו כן, Hspell מספק (-l) מנתח מורפולוגי אשר מדפיס את כל
 המשמעויות האפשריות של מחרוזת אותיות עברית.
+גרסה 1.4 תואמת עדיין לכללי האיות הישנים (טרם יוני 2017) של האקדמיה.
 
 %package devel
 Summary: Library and include files for Hspell, the Hebrew spell checker
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ Hebrew hunspell dictionaries.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .localreq
 /usr/bin/iconv -f hebrew -t utf8 -o WHATSNEW WHATSNEW
 
 %build
@@ -84,6 +88,9 @@ cp -p he.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.aff
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 15 2017 Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.technion.ac.il> - 1.4-1
+- Sync with upstream hspell-1.4
+
 * Wed Feb 03 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a76ae64..efe3f04 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-351850c9f6974a709dd092a2d1063e4a  hspell-1.3.tar.gz
+SHA512 (hspell-1.4.tar.gz) = d0c9205d9f6a7e9e2577b685418120542235d290ee8d95e2066694c45b4083e3ce1abc38c910714cde0941fa6b211522a8259b0d880a71c5b9c5a6d77a115f1a