diff --git a/contrib/Makefile.python b/contrib/Makefile.python
--- a/contrib/Makefile.python
+++ b/contrib/Makefile.python
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PYTHONVER=2.7.6
+PYTHONVER=2.7.8
 PYTHONNAME=python-
 PREFIX=$(HOME)/bin/prefix-$(PYTHONNAME)$(PYTHONVER)
 SYMLINKDIR=$(HOME)/bin
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ help:
 # debian: apt-get install zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev
 	@echo
 	@echo 'To build a nice collection of interesting Python versions:'
-	@echo '  $$ for v in 2.{4{,.2,.3},5{,.6},6{,.1,.2,.9},7{,.6}}; do'
+	@echo '  $$ for v in 2.{4{,.2,.3},5{,.6},6{,.1,.2,.9},7{,.8}}; do'
 	@echo '    make -f Makefile.python symlink PYTHONVER=$$v || break; done'
 	@echo 'To run a Mercurial test on all these Python versions:'
 	@echo '  $$ for py in `cd ~/bin && ls $(PYTHONNAME)2.*`; do'
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ PYTHON_SRCFILE=$(PYTHON_SRCDIR).tgz
 	printf 'import sys, zlib, bz2\nif sys.version_info >= (2,6):\n import ssl' | $(PREFIX)/bin/python
 	rm -rf $(PYTHON_SRCDIR)
 
-DOCUTILSVER=0.11
+DOCUTILSVER=0.12
 DOCUTILS_SRCDIR=docutils-$(DOCUTILSVER)
 DOCUTILS_SRCFILE=$(DOCUTILS_SRCDIR).tar.gz
 
diff --git a/contrib/mercurial.spec b/contrib/mercurial.spec
--- a/contrib/mercurial.spec
+++ b/contrib/mercurial.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 %global pythonver %{withpython}
 %global pythonname Python-%{withpython}
-%global docutilsname docutils-0.11
+%global docutilsname docutils-0.12
 %global pythonhg python-hg
 %global hgpyprefix /usr/%{pythonhg}
 # byte compilation will fail on some some Python /test/ files