diff --git a/criu-3.8.1.tar.bz2 b/criu-3.8.1.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04497bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/criu-3.8.1.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+oid sha256:a134ccedd84fc9377c758f204d4e997fd8fe514fd05cbdbd64939b5698865e33
+size 768034
diff --git a/criu-3.8.tar.bz2 b/criu-3.8.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a89f08..0000000
--- a/criu-3.8.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:55bdd539e9ac89810fc3e8c236cc280f45e528d3fa9daabe256e285e965dbb3e
-size 768812
diff --git a/criu.changes b/criu.changes
index 573a540..6f5d461 100644
--- a/criu.changes
+++ b/criu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr  5 12:30:17 CEST 2018 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- update to criu 3.8.1: a bug-fix release
+  FDstore was initialized twice (re-initialized) causing e.g.
+  --shell-job restore to fail 
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 20 22:50:51 CET 2018 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- Add python-devel to BuildReq explicitly, as a preparation for
+  fallback to asciidoctor (bsc#1075764)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 13 16:21:20 UTC 2018 - avindra@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/criu.spec b/criu.spec
index b2ffd28..ad6eee6 100644
--- a/criu.spec
+++ b/criu.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           criu
-Version:        3.8
+Version:        3.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace Tools
 License:        GPL-2.0-only
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libnl3-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  protobuf-c
 BuildRequires:  protobuf-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
 Requires:       python-ipaddr
 Requires:       python-protobuf