diff --git a/README.patches b/README.patches
index 9f6a80e..2339061 100644
--- a/README.patches
+++ b/README.patches
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ Individual patches for Vim 6.3:
   6419  6.3.023  when <Space> is remapped abbreviations are not expanded
   2456  6.3.024  missing NUL for strings created with ga_concat()
   1409  6.3.025  (extra) missing NUL for list of server names
+  3070  6.3.026  setting 'bg' in syncolor.vim may cause endless loop or crash
diff --git a/vim.spec b/vim.spec
index b99c20e..cf08d92 100644
--- a/vim.spec
+++ b/vim.spec
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
 
 %define baseversion 6.3
 %define vimdir vim63
-%define patchlevel 025
+%define patchlevel 026
 
 Summary: The VIM editor.
 Name: vim
 Version: %{baseversion}.%{patchlevel}
-Release: 2
+Release: 1
 License: freeware
 Group: Applications/Editors
 Source0: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-%{baseversion}.tar.bz2
@@ -479,6 +479,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.3.026-1
+- patchlevel 26 (fixes an endless loop in syntax highlighting)
+
 * Wed Sep 08 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.3.025-2 
 - clean up spec file
 - disable fontset