diff --git a/memcached.spec.in b/memcached.spec.in
index f473d8fa3a..678be90a63 100644
--- a/memcached.spec.in
+++ b/memcached.spec.in
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ exit 0
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README doc/CONTRIBUTORS doc/*.txt
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README.md doc/CONTRIBUTORS doc/*.txt
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/%{name}
 
 %dir %attr(750,nobody,nobody) %{_localstatedir}/run/memcached
diff --git a/t/whitespace.t b/t/whitespace.t
index f3629abece..50b5ae6daf 100755
--- a/t/whitespace.t
+++ b/t/whitespace.t
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ our @files;
 BEGIN {
     chdir "$Bin/.." or die;
 
-    my @exempted = qw(Makefile.am ChangeLog doc/Makefile.am);
+    my @exempted = qw(Makefile.am ChangeLog doc/Makefile.am README README.md);
     push(@exempted, glob("doc/*.xml"));
     push(@exempted, glob("doc/xml2rfc/*.xsl"));
     push(@exempted, glob("m4/*backport*m4"));