diff --git a/_service b/_service
index 7dc68d2..4c3cee3 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
     <param name="versionrewrite-pattern">appstream_glib_(\d+)_(\d+)_(\d+)(\+0)?(\+[1-9][0-9]*)?</param>
     <param name="versionrewrite-replacement">\1.\2.\3\5</param>
     <param name="changesgenerate">enable</param>
-    <param name="revision">0_7_X</param>
+    <param name="revision">refs/tags/appstream_glib_0_8_1</param>
 <!--
-    <param name="revision">refs/tags/appstream_glib_0_7_18</param>
+    <param name="revision">0_7_X</param>
 -->
   </service>
   <service name="tar" mode="buildtime"/>
diff --git a/_servicedata b/_servicedata
index c0d1df3..d0c2501 100644
--- a/_servicedata
+++ b/_servicedata
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <servicedata>
 <service name="tar_scm">
             <param name="url">https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib.git</param>
-          <param name="changesrevision">28a9f923994f3fe9d7ed48bea63ba72ba41dde91</param></service></servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
+          <param name="changesrevision">28c985bec286385504c5303a8f29eab4082f5afd</param></service></servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/appstream-glib-0.7.18+37.obscpio b/appstream-glib-0.7.18+37.obscpio
deleted file mode 100644
index b8cc8f2..0000000
--- a/appstream-glib-0.7.18+37.obscpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:ae5e4d76c9b199f49c360d641f8ffbe91b55e9ce9142a6628ad087cc0b1f07de
-size 5171725
diff --git a/appstream-glib-0.8.1.obscpio b/appstream-glib-0.8.1.obscpio
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61d3a4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appstream-glib-0.8.1.obscpio
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:64383d4f3eaa8aa68f1a9be34055fb2972fb149eaffa336397bf460795636ac5
+size 5230093
diff --git a/appstream-glib.changes b/appstream-glib.changes
index 4e5a77a..2f0fa07 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.changes
+++ b/appstream-glib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 01 07:01:22 UTC 2022 - bjorn.lie@gmail.com
+
+- Update to version 0.8.1:
+  * Initialize proxy resolver in appstream-validate
+  * Improve handling of <em> and <code> tags
+  * trivial: Turn is_{em,code}_text fields into bitfields
+  * Properly initialize AsNodeToXmlHelper
+  * Correct typos in as-app.c
+- Changes from version 0.8.0:
+  * Use GProxyResolver to auto-detect the correct proxy
+  * Port from libsoup to libcurl
+  * Remove the --enable-hidpi option completely
+  * Updated translations.
+- Replace pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4) with pkgconfig(libcurl)
+  BuildRequires following upstreams port.
+- Use ldconfig_scriptlets macro for post(un) handling.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 23 10:58:42 UTC 2022 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/appstream-glib.obsinfo b/appstream-glib.obsinfo
index 533f998..2c02e3d 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.obsinfo
+++ b/appstream-glib.obsinfo
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 name: appstream-glib
-version: 0.7.18+37
-mtime: 1654088773
-commit: 28a9f923994f3fe9d7ed48bea63ba72ba41dde91
+version: 0.8.1
+mtime: 1660134290
+commit: 28c985bec286385504c5303a8f29eab4082f5afd
diff --git a/appstream-glib.spec b/appstream-glib.spec
index ccd59c5..1b97131 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.spec
+++ b/appstream-glib.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           appstream-glib
-Version:        0.7.18+37
+Version:        0.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        AppStream Abstraction Library
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gmodule-2.0) >= 2.45.8
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(json-glib-1.0) >= 1.1.2
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libarchive)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcurl) >= 7.56.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libgcab-1.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4) >= 2.51.92
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(rpm)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(uuid)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(yaml-0.1)
@@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ else
   exit 0
 fi
 
-%post -n libappstream-glib8 -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -n libappstream-glib8 -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%ldconfig_scriptlets -n libappstream-glib8
 
 %files
 %doc AUTHORS NEWS