diff --git a/git-2.7.4.tar.sign b/git-2.7.4.tar.sign
deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/git-2.7.4.tar.xz b/git-2.7.4.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 737a9ef..0000000
--- a/git-2.7.4.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:dee574defbe05ec7356a0842ddbda51315926f2fa7e39c2539f2c3dcc52e457b
-size 3909636
diff --git a/git-2.8.1.tar.sign b/git-2.8.1.tar.sign
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diff --git a/git-2.8.1.tar.xz b/git-2.8.1.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a60d1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-2.8.1.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:e6626b43ba4bc63ad4918df4c275f50bd7f8af2ab54bde60496ad75e91e927fc
+size 3970056
diff --git a/git.changes b/git.changes
index 57d29ff..8f27777 100644
--- a/git.changes
+++ b/git.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Apr  3 19:51:56 UTC 2016 - astieger@suse.com
+
+- git 2.8.1:
+  * make rpmbuild target was broken, unused in openSUSE package
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr  1 09:20:24 UTC 2016 - astieger@suse.com
+
+- git 2.8.0
+  * Backward compatibility:
+    + The rsync:// transport has been removed.
+  * various subcommands improvements
+  * various output improvements
+  * improved handling of notes
+  * improved handling of end of line styles
+  * http.proxyAuthMethod configures proxy authentication method
+  * new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation
+  * "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable forces individual
+    project configuration
+  * "git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
+    told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).
+  * http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned public key
+  * bug fixes and performance improvements
+   
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 17 21:22:02 UTC 2016 - astieger@suse.com
 
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 9ee018e..906e8e2 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           git
-Version:        2.7.4
+Version:        2.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
 License:        GPL-2.0
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ if ! test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{gitexecdir}/git-add; then
 fi
 
 mkdir -p "%buildroot/%_docdir/git"
-cp -a README COPYING Documentation/*.txt "%buildroot/%_docdir/git/"
+cp -a README.md COPYING Documentation/*.txt "%buildroot/%_docdir/git/"
 %{!?_without_docs: cp -a Documentation/*.html "%buildroot/%_docdir/git/"}
 
 %find_lang %{name}
@@ -364,12 +364,12 @@ fi
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %dir %_docdir/%name
-%_docdir/%name/README
+%_docdir/%name/README.md
 
 %files doc
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %_docdir/%name/
-%exclude %_docdir/%name/README
+%exclude %_docdir/%name/README.md
 
 %files svn
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ fi
 /usr/share/tcsh
 /etc/profile.d/*.csh
 /etc/zsh_completion.d
-%doc README COPYING Documentation/*.txt
+%doc README.md COPYING Documentation/*.txt
+
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/*.html Documentation/howto}
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/technical}