diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b40dfa7..f8e7c42 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.5.tar.xz
 /zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.6.tar.xz
 /zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.7.tar.xz
+/zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/0001-link-against-tesseract-leptonica-for-mupdf-1.19.0.patch b/0001-link-against-tesseract-leptonica-for-mupdf-1.19.0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 57bd731..0000000
--- a/0001-link-against-tesseract-leptonica-for-mupdf-1.19.0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-From 3547a91391e7c96145d752ffcd3c3dd7655fef21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-Message-Id: <3547a91391e7c96145d752ffcd3c3dd7655fef21.1635089223.git.mjg@fedoraproject.org>
-From: Michael J Gruber <mjg@fedoraproject.org>
-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:15:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] link against tesseract/leptonica for mupdf 1.19.0
-
-Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <mjg@fedoraproject.org>
----
- meson.build | 6 +++++-
- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 28373c4..d60cb76 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ if get_option('link-external')
-   libjbig2dec = cc.find_library('jbig2dec')
-   libopenjp2 = dependency('libopenjp2')
-   gumbo = dependency('gumbo')
-+  tesseract = dependency('tesseract')
-+  leptonica = dependency('lept')
- 
-   build_dependencies += [
-     libjpeg,
-     libjbig2dec,
-     libopenjp2,
--    gumbo
-+    gumbo,
-+    tesseract,
-+    leptonica
-   ]
- endif
- 
--- 
-2.33.1.1061.g4ab8308fcf
-
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a3b3815..279dae4 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.7.tar.xz) = 709c34b1478e22f7da6a10bc8c59aa5bd1cbffd221caa38154d2e3efbea58dd2930fef3932687acac5d5ebccbd884303d81008a138a6276057f335aed0d570c0
+SHA512 (zathura-pdf-mupdf-0.3.8.tar.xz) = c2ec4a204446822eb3771673e99ddc42d6ffdfbbb9fc079e09442f0b5a6e2397190d2a8079a92f2d08d5824199760a90d192cb517c9f17676102f3ed69edd5a0
diff --git a/zathura-pdf-mupdf.spec b/zathura-pdf-mupdf.spec
index 3722d30..9270d7b 100644
--- a/zathura-pdf-mupdf.spec
+++ b/zathura-pdf-mupdf.spec
@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@
 
 Name:             zathura-pdf-mupdf
 
-Version:          0.3.7
-Release:          7%{?dist}
+Version:          0.3.8
+Release:          1%{?dist}
 Summary:          PDF support for zathura via mupdf
 License:          zlib
 URL:              https://pwmt.org/projects/%{name}/
 Source0:          %{url}/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
-Patch1:           0001-link-against-tesseract-leptonica-for-mupdf-1.19.0.patch
 BuildRequires:    binutils
 BuildRequires:    cairo-devel
 # Needed to validate the desktop file
@@ -43,10 +42,10 @@ Conflicts:        zathura-pdf-poppler < 0.2.9
 This plugin adds PDF support to zathura using the mupdf rendering engine.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -p1
+%autosetup
 
 %build
-%meson -Dlink-external=true
+%meson
 %meson_build
 
 %install
@@ -66,6 +65,9 @@ appstream-util validate-relax --nonet %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/*.metainf
 %{_datadir}/metainfo/org.pwmt.zathura-pdf-mupdf.metainfo.xml
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Apr 02 2022 Ankur Sinha <ankursinha AT fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.8-1
+- update to latest release
+
 * Thu Mar 10 2022 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 0.3.7-7
 - Rebuild for tesseract 5.1.0