diff --git a/monitor/ipmiutil/ipmiutil.desc b/monitor/ipmiutil/ipmiutil.desc
index b5c772651..2bbaf345e 100644
--- a/monitor/ipmiutil/ipmiutil.desc
+++ b/monitor/ipmiutil/ipmiutil.desc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../ipmiutil/ipmiutil.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY]
 [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 [COPY]
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 [L] BSD
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.6.8
+[V] 2.8.4
 [P] X -----5---9 800.000
 
-[D] 2243415237 ipmiutil-2.6.8.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipmiutil/
+[D] 3334953109 ipmiutil-2.8.4.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipmiutil/
diff --git a/monitor/ipmiutil/no-gzip-manpages.patch b/monitor/ipmiutil/no-gzip-manpages.patch
index 09640b062..ab2131ad4 100644
--- a/monitor/ipmiutil/no-gzip-manpages.patch
+++ b/monitor/ipmiutil/no-gzip-manpages.patch
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../ipmiutil/no-gzip-manpages.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -16,11 +16,21 @@
 
 Description: Do not gzip all available man pages
 
---- ipmiutil-2.6.8/doc/Makefile.orig	2010-08-16 14:40:23.760171932 +0200
-+++ ipmiutil-2.6.8/doc/Makefile	2010-08-16 14:40:34.076006988 +0200
-@@ -67,5 +67,4 @@
- 	${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ipmi_port.sh ${initto}/ipmi_port
- 	for f in ${sbinfls}; do \
- 	    ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} $$f ${sbinto}; done
+--- ipmiutil-2.8.4/doc/Makefile.am.orig	2012-07-25 16:45:04.816072618 +0200
++++ ipmiutil-2.8.4/doc/Makefile.am	2012-07-25 16:45:45.948803238 +0200
+@@ -54,5 +54,4 @@
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} iekanalyzer.8 ${manto}
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} idcmi.8 	 ${manto}
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} bmclanpet.mib ${datato}
 -	cd ${manto}; gzip -f *.8
  	
+--- ipmiutil-2.8.4/doc/Makefile.in.orig	2012-07-25 16:45:11.188857671 +0200
++++ ipmiutil-2.8.4/doc/Makefile.in	2012-07-25 16:45:36.775727672 +0200
+@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} iekanalyzer.8 ${manto}
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} idcmi.8 	 ${manto}
+ 	${INSTALL_DATA_SH} bmclanpet.mib ${datato}
+-	cd ${manto}; gzip -f *.8
+ # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
+ # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
+ .NOEXPORT: