diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b5ba546..24fa909 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /PyQt5_gpl-5.8.tar.gz
+/PyQt5_gpl-5.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-qt5.spec b/python-qt5.spec
index f601a27..0f2bafc 100644
--- a/python-qt5.spec
+++ b/python-qt5.spec
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 Summary: PyQt5 is Python bindings for Qt5
 Name: 	 python-qt5 
-Version: 5.8
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 5.8.1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 # all BSD, except for GPLv2+ dbus bindings and examples
 License: BSD and GPLv2+
@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@ sed -i \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 07 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.8.1-1
+- PyQt5-5.8.1
+
 * Fri Feb 17 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.8-2
 - python3-qt5: omit sip files inadvertantly added in 5.7.1-5
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index fd0a2f5..ee49569 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (PyQt5_gpl-5.8.tar.gz) = 02b8b3d99088db383809001092ba2b8010c4353747a602e03f756e1f803364abb3f254b3ccf24a58375e168fbaec044368cf09b7376ed3d43955dc82359259fc
+SHA512 (PyQt5_gpl-5.8.1.tar.gz) = 56607263f6782409a2088b986954e973fdeea681fe3d6e3708b4946477da1431c33814454ad14e758de7c46b1dac660f3204aae2e1087249d13be6d80ddd6458