diff --git a/grpc.changes b/grpc.changes
index 0c069f8..4c328f3 100644
--- a/grpc.changes
+++ b/grpc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar 16 17:39:59 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to new upstream release 1.19.1
+  * Use 32-bit nanopb fields.
+  * Avoid SRV and TXT lookups for localhost.
+  * Set c-ares as the default resolver.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan  7 11:39:15 UTC 2019 - Michał Rostecki <mrostecki@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/grpc.spec b/grpc.spec
index 0ca3e43..f6baf86 100644
--- a/grpc.spec
+++ b/grpc.spec
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 %define src_install_dir /usr/src/%{name}
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           grpc
-Version:        1.16
+Version:        1.19.1
 Release:        0
-%define rver	1.16.0
+%define rver	1.19.1
 Summary:        HTTP/2-based Remote Procedure Call implementation
 License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ export CFLAGS="%optflags"
 
 %install
 b="%buildroot"
-%make_install prefix="$b/%_prefix" STRIP=/bin/true V=1 VERBOSE=1
+# work around "Argument list too long"
+ln -s "%buildroot" "b"
+%make_install DESTDIR="b" prefix="b/%_prefix" STRIP=/bin/true V=1 VERBOSE=1
+
 find "$b/%_includedir" -type f -exec chmod a-x {} +
 pushd "$b/usr"
 rm -fv lib/*.a share/grpc/*.pem
@@ -149,11 +152,9 @@ find %{buildroot}%{src_install_dir} -type f \( -name "*.bzl" -o -name "*.py" \)
 %{src_install_dir}
 
 %files -n python2-grpcio
-%python2_sitearch/grpcio-%rver-py*.egg-info
-%python2_sitearch/grpc
+%python2_sitearch/grpc*
 
 %files -n python3-grpcio
-%python3_sitearch/grpcio-%rver-py*.egg-info
-%python3_sitearch/grpc
+%python3_sitearch/grpc*
 
 %changelog
diff --git a/v1.16.0.tar.gz b/v1.16.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 54f27ff..0000000
--- a/v1.16.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d99db0b39b490d2469a8ef74197d5f211fa740fc9581dccecbb76c56d080fce1
-size 14442543
diff --git a/v1.19.1.tar.gz b/v1.19.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9f1b1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.19.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:f869c648090e8bddaa1260a271b1089caccbe735bf47ac9cd7d44d35a02fb129
+size 14794085