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diff --git a/libX11.changes b/libX11.changes
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  5 20:33:29 UTC 2022 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
+
+- Update to version 1.8.1
+  This release fixes the --enable-thread-safety-constructor option to the
+  configure script to work as intended.  In the previous release, the changes
+  for this option may not have been enabled when the option was not specified
+  or when the --enable option was specified.
+  While we have enabled it by default, believing that doing so will reduce
+  the number of bugs users encounter running libX11 clients, in some cases
+  it may expose bugs in which clients had previously gotten away with calling
+  libX11 functions while a libX11 lock is already held, and thus now deadlock,
+  as discussed in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/157  
+- let's hope this version doesn't suffer yet from the regressions
+  reported in boo#1205778, boo#1205818 (reported against 1.8.2);
+  we need libX11 thread safe for totem (GNOME 43) :-(
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec  5 13:40:36 UTC 2022 - Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libX11.spec b/libX11.spec
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 Name:           libX11
-Version:        1.7.5
+Version:        1.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Core X11 protocol client library
 License:        MIT