diff --git a/.abf.yml b/.abf.yml
index 54d0076..73b4b18 100644
--- a/.abf.yml
+++ b/.abf.yml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 sources:
-  "swig-2.0.7.tar.gz": 307020fb6437092e32c9c1bd9af8bccb1645b529
+  "swig-2.0.8.tar.gz": 763305da320163903c69c1cdfbf9a942117d9ace
diff --git a/swig-2.0.7-pylib.patch b/swig-2.0.7-pylib.patch
index 092c7f1..83f8576 100644
--- a/swig-2.0.7-pylib.patch
+++ b/swig-2.0.7-pylib.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
---- swig-2.0.7/configure.in.orig	2012-09-02 10:12:44.000000000 +0400
-+++ swig-2.0.7/configure.in	2012-09-02 10:13:09.000000000 +0400
-@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
+--- swig-2.0.7/configure.in.pylib	2012-05-23 19:10:44.000000000 +0000
++++ swig-2.0.7/configure.in	2012-05-31 23:21:24.000000000 +0000
+@@ -664,11 +664,13 @@
+     fi
+     AC_MSG_RESULT($PYLIBDIR)
+     
++    PYLIB=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.path[[1]]"`
++
+     # Set the include directory
  
      AC_MSG_CHECKING(for Python header files)
      if test -r $PYPREFIX/include/$PYVERSION/Python.h; then
@@ -9,10 +15,11 @@
      fi
      if test -z "$PYINCLUDE"; then
        if test -r $PYPREFIX/include/Py/Python.h; then
-@@ -680,12 +680,6 @@
+@@ -679,13 +681,6 @@
+ 
      # Set the library directory blindly.   This probably won't work with older versions
      AC_MSG_CHECKING(for Python library)
-     dirs="$PYVERSION/config $PYVERSION/$PYLIBDIR python/$PYLIBDIR"
+-    dirs="$PYVERSION/config $PYVERSION/$PYLIBDIR python/$PYLIBDIR"
 -    for i in $dirs; do
 -      if test -d $PYEPREFIX/$PYLIBDIR/$i; then
 -        PYLIB="$PYEPREFIX/$PYLIBDIR/$i"
diff --git a/swig.spec b/swig.spec
index 4bce49f..71cf501 100644
--- a/swig.spec
+++ b/swig.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 %{?_with_mono: %{expand: %%global with_mono 1}}
 
 Name:		swig
-Version:	2.0.7
+Version:	2.0.8
 Release:	1
 Epoch:		1
 Summary:	Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG)
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Group:		Development/Other
 URL:		http://www.swig.org/
 Source0:	http://download.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:		swig-2.0.7-pylib.patch
+Patch1:		swig203-rh706140.patch
+Patch2:		swig204-rh752054.patch
 BuildRequires:	bison
 BuildRequires:	imake
 %if %{with_guile}
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ BuildRequires:	python-devel
 BuildRequires:	ruby-devel
 BuildRequires:	tcl-devel
 BuildRequires:	autoconf automake libtool
-Obsoletes:	swig-devel
+Obsoletes:	swig-devel < 2.0.7
 
 %description
 SWIG takes an interface description file written in a combination of C/C++
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ It allows scripting languages to use C/C++ code with minimal effort.
 %package	doc
 Summary:	Documentation and examples for %{name}
 Group:		Development/C
-Requires:	%{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
+Requires:	%{name} = %{EVRD}
 
 %description	doc
 SWIG takes an interface description file written in a combination of C/C++
@@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ documentation.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .pylib
+%patch1 -p1
+%patch2 -p1
 
 %build
 ./autogen.sh
diff --git a/swig203-rh706140.patch b/swig203-rh706140.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f79da9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swig203-rh706140.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+diff -up swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_gh_run.swg.rh706140 swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_gh_run.swg
+--- swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_gh_run.swg.rh706140	2011-05-20 15:16:42.300658987 +0200
++++ swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_gh_run.swg	2011-05-20 15:17:08.609658991 +0200
+@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@
+ extern "C" {
+ #endif
+ 
++#if SCM_MAJOR_VERSION >= 2
++typedef scm_t_subr swig_guile_proc;
++#else
+ typedef SCM (*swig_guile_proc)();
++#endif
+ 
+ #define SWIG_malloc(size) \
+   SCM_MUST_MALLOC(size)
+diff -up swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg.rh706140 swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg
+--- swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg.rh706140	2011-05-20 15:17:22.057658991 +0200
++++ swig-2.0.3/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg	2011-05-20 15:17:46.183658997 +0200
+@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
+ extern "C" {
+ #endif
+ 
++#if SCM_MAJOR_VERSION >= 2
++typedef scm_t_subr swig_guile_proc;
++#else
+ typedef SCM (*swig_guile_proc)();
++#endif
+ typedef SCM (*guile_destructor)(SCM);
+ 
+ typedef struct swig_guile_clientdata {
diff --git a/swig204-rh752054.patch b/swig204-rh752054.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a661ca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swig204-rh752054.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- swig-2.0.4/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg	2011-11-14 14:44:35.688597584 +0100
++++ swig-2.0.4/Lib/guile/guile_scm_run.swg.rh752054	2011-11-14 14:45:15.879594778 +0100
+@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static swig_module_info *SWIG_Guile_GetM
+ SWIGINTERN char *
+ SWIG_Guile_scm2newstr(SCM str, size_t *len) {
+ #define FUNC_NAME "SWIG_Guile_scm2newstr"
+-  char *ret;
++  char *ret, *tmp;
+   size_t l;
+ 
+   SCM_ASSERT (SCM_STRINGP(str), str, 1, FUNC_NAME);
+@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ SWIG_Guile_scm2newstr(SCM str, size_t *l
+   ret = (char *) SWIG_malloc( (l + 1) * sizeof(char));
+   if (!ret) return NULL;
+ 
+-  memcpy(ret, SCM_STRING_CHARS(str), l);
++  tmp = scm_to_utf8_string(str);
++  memcpy(ret, tmp, l);
++  free(tmp);
+   ret[l] = '\0';
+   if (len) *len = l;
+   return ret;