diff --git a/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml b/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
index 27af3a6b37..2daeeef8f6 100644
--- a/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@
         <IsA>app:console</IsA>
         <Summary>GNU debugger</Summary>
         <Description>GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on 'inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="04ba2906279b16b5f99c4f6b25942843a3717cdb" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnu/gdb/gdb-7.9.1.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="ef77c5345d6f9fdcdf7a5d8503301242b701936e" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnu/gdb/gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>texinfo</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>guile-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>expat-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>readline-devel</Dependency>
@@ -56,6 +57,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="3">
+            <Date>2017-01-29</Date>
+            <Version>7.12.1</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Ertuğrul Erata</Name>
+            <Email>ertugrulerata@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="2">
             <Date>2016-06-09</Date>
             <Version>7.9.1</Version>