diff --git a/app/lib/jssc-2.6.0.jar b/app/lib/jssc-2.6.0.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index eb74f154a..000000000
Binary files a/app/lib/jssc-2.6.0.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar b/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2b5c070a
Binary files /dev/null and b/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar differ
diff --git a/build/build.xml b/build/build.xml
index 4a8992229..63b64275d 100644
--- a/build/build.xml
+++ b/build/build.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <include name="app/lib/jmdns-3.4.1.jar" />
     <include name="app/lib/jna.jar" />
     <include name="app/lib/jsch-0.1.50.jar" />
-    <include name="app/lib/jssc-2.6.0.jar" />
+    <include name="app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar" />
     <include name="app/lib/ant.jar" />
     <include name="app/lib/ant-launcher.jar" />
   </fileset>
diff --git a/build/shared/revisions.txt b/build/shared/revisions.txt
index 11b63ce1f..8b30fcd0b 100644
--- a/build/shared/revisions.txt
+++ b/build/shared/revisions.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ARDUINO 1.5.6 BETA
 [ide]
 * Implemented 1.5 library specification Rev.2
   (https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5:-Library-specification)
+* Replaced RXTX library with JSSC (Alexey Sokolov)
+  http://code.google.com/p/java-simple-serial-connector/
 * Improved command-line parsing (Matthijs Kooijman)
 
 [libraries]