diff --git a/.fabtests.metadata b/.fabtests.metadata
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index 0000000..6e46b34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.fabtests.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0c885f1a66b38732933f95aece0df5db9f0db5bb SOURCES/fabtests-1.5.3.tar.bz2
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..3e522c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SOURCES/fabtests-1.5.3.tar.bz2
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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index 98f42b4..0000000
--- a/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-The master branch has no content
-
-Look at the c7 branch if you are working with CentOS-7, or the c4/c5/c6 branch for CentOS-4, 5 or 6
-If you find this file in a distro specific branch, it means that no content has been checked in yet
diff --git a/SOURCES/0001-adjust-shebang-lines-in-rft_yaml_to_junit_xml-and-ru.patch b/SOURCES/0001-adjust-shebang-lines-in-rft_yaml_to_junit_xml-and-ru.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36aa128
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0001-adjust-shebang-lines-in-rft_yaml_to_junit_xml-and-ru.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff --git a/scripts/rft_yaml_to_junit_xml b/scripts/rft_yaml_to_junit_xml
+index feb6463..2d3b3a3 100755
+--- a/scripts/rft_yaml_to_junit_xml
++++ b/scripts/rft_yaml_to_junit_xml
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
++#!/usr/bin/ruby
+ 
+ # Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ #
+diff --git a/scripts/runfabtests.sh b/scripts/runfabtests.sh
+index b57a039..9b3f0e7 100755
+--- a/scripts/runfabtests.sh
++++ b/scripts/runfabtests.sh
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env bash
++#!/bin/bash
+ 
+ #
+ # Copyright (c) 2017, Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
diff --git a/SPECS/fabtests.spec b/SPECS/fabtests.spec
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index 0000000..84ddc59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/fabtests.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+Name: fabtests
+Version: 1.5.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Summary: Test suite for libfabric API
+License: GPLv2 or BSD
+Url: http://www.github.com/ofiwg/fabtests
+Source: https://github.com/ofiwg/%{name}/releases/download/v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch1: 0001-adjust-shebang-lines-in-rft_yaml_to_junit_xml-and-ru.patch
+BuildRequires: libfabric-devel >= %{version}
+BuildRequires: gcc
+%ifnarch s390
+BuildRequires: valgrind-devel
+%endif
+
+%description
+Fabtests provides a set of examples that uses libfabric - a high-performance
+fabric software library.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch1 -p1
+
+%build
+%configure %{?_with_libfabric} \
+%ifnarch s390
+	--with-valgrind
+%endif
+
+make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
+
+%install
+%make_install
+# remove unpackaged files from the buildroot
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+
+%files
+%{_bindir}/*
+%{_mandir}/man7/*
+%doc AUTHORS README
+%license COPYING
+%{_prefix}/share/fabtests/test_configs
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Jan 12 2018 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.3-1
+- Rebase to upstream release 1.5.3
+- Resolves: bz1533297
+
+* Tue Oct 24 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-1
+- Rebase to upstream release 1.5.1.
+- Resolves: bz1505737
+
+* Thu May 18 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
+- Rebase to upstream release 1.4.2.
+- Resolves: bz1451214
+
+* Mon Mar  6 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
+- Rebase to upstream release 1.4.1.
+- Resolves: bz1429296
+
+* Tue May 31 2016 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-1
+- Rebase to upstream release 1.3.0.
+- Related: bz1280146
+
+* Fri Aug 14 2015 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-1
+- Rebase to upstream 1.1.0
+- Resolves: bz1253513
+
+* Sat Aug 08 2015 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.2.rc1
+- Packaging Guidelines conformance fixes and spec file cleanups
+- Fix libfabric dependency
+- Related: bz1235270
+
+* Wed Aug  5 2015 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.1.rc1
+- Initial build for RHEL-7.2
+- Related: bz1235270
+
+* Sun May 3 2015 Open Fabrics Interfaces Working Group <ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org> 1.0.0
+- Release 1.0.0