diff --git a/_service b/_service
index 7487e87..2ae3066 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <param name="versionformat">@PARENT_TAG@</param>
     <param name="url">https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse.git</param>
     <param name="scm">git</param>
-    <param name="revision">v1.20.1</param>
+    <param name="revision">v1.21.1</param>
     <param name="versionrewrite-pattern">v(.*)</param>
     <param name="versionrewrite-replacement">\1</param>
     <!--
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-1.20.1.obscpio b/matrix-synapse-1.20.1.obscpio
deleted file mode 100644
index 855be86..0000000
--- a/matrix-synapse-1.20.1.obscpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:1d4a9ce97d0c3cbb5b54690808001f000a2046a1980984bebca6f1b139bcb74a
-size 28324365
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-1.21.1.obscpio b/matrix-synapse-1.21.1.obscpio
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f26dab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matrix-synapse-1.21.1.obscpio
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:376af40c3224e3c343eae7118656cf6baf5a3b934130a00e80a0761c9c07c562
+size 28527629
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-test.spec b/matrix-synapse-test.spec
index 85c8c9f..2fedae1 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse-test.spec
+++ b/matrix-synapse-test.spec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 %define         pkgname matrix-synapse
 Name:           %{pkgname}-test
-Version:        1.20.1
+Version:        1.21.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Test package for %{pkgname}
 License:        Apache-2.0
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.changes b/matrix-synapse.changes
index fba7971..a00ad2c 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.changes
+++ b/matrix-synapse.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,173 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 14 16:09:43 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- Update to 1.21.1
+  This release fixes a regression in v1.21.0 that prevented debian
+  packages from being built. It is otherwise identical to v1.21.0.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 12 17:08:13 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- Update to 1.21.0
+  - Features
+    - Convert additional templates from inline HTML to Jinja2
+      templates. (#8444)
+    - Require the user to confirm that their password should be
+      reset after clicking the email confirmation link. (#8004)
+    - Add an admin API GET /_synapse/admin/v1/event_reports to read
+      entries of table event_reports. Contributed by @dklimpel.
+      (#8217)
+    - Consolidate the SSO error template across all configuration.
+      (#8248, #8405)
+    - Add a configuration option to specify a whitelist of domains
+      that a user can be redirected to after validating their email
+      or phone number. (#8275, #8417)
+    - Add experimental support for sharding event persister.
+      (#8294, #8387, #8396, #8419)
+    - Add the room topic and avatar to the room details admin API.
+      (#8305)
+    - Add an admin API for querying rooms where a user is a member.
+      Contributed by @dklimpel. (#8306)
+    - Add uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service login type
+      to allow appservices to login. (#8320)
+    - Add a configuration option that allows existing users to log
+      in with OpenID Connect. Contributed by @BBBSnowball and
+      @OmmyZhang. (#8345)
+    - Add prometheus metrics for replication requests. (#8406)
+    - Support passing additional single sign-on parameters to the
+      client. (#8413)
+    - Add experimental reporting of metrics on expensive rooms for
+      state-resolution. (#8420)
+    - Add experimental prometheus metric to track numbers of
+      "large" rooms for state resolutiom. (#8425)
+    - Add prometheus metrics to track federation delays. (#8430)
+  - Bugfixes
+    - Fix duplication of events on high traffic servers, caused by
+      PostgreSQL could not serialize access due to concurrent
+      update errors. (#8456)
+    - Fix a regression in v1.21.0rc1 which broke thumbnails of
+      remote media. (#8438)
+    - Do not expose the experimental
+      uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service flow in the
+      login API, which caused a compatibility problem with Element
+      iOS. (#8440)
+    - Fix malformed log line in new federation "catch up" logic.
+      (#8442)
+    - Fix DB query on startup for negative streams which caused
+      long start up times. Introduced in #8374. (#8447)
+    - Fix a bug in the media repository where remote thumbnails
+      with the same size but different crop methods would overwrite
+      each other. Contributed by @deepbluev7. (#7124)
+    - Fix inconsistent handling of non-existent push rules, and
+      stop tracking the enabled state of removed push rules.
+      (#7796)
+    - Fix a longstanding bug when storing a media file with an
+      empty upload_name. (#7905)
+    - Fix messages not being sent over federation until an event is
+      sent into the same room. (#8230, #8247, #8258, #8272, #8322)
+    - Fix a longstanding bug where files that could not be
+      thumbnailed would result in an Internal Server Error. (#8236,
+      #8435)
+    - Upgrade minimum version of canonicaljson to version 1.4.0, to
+      fix an unicode encoding issue. (#8262)
+    - Fix longstanding bug which could lead to incomplete database
+      upgrades on SQLite. (#8265)
+    - Fix stack overflow when stderr is redirected to the logging
+      system, and the logging system encounters an error. (#8268)
+    - Fix a bug which cause the logging system to report errors, if
+      DEBUG was enabled and no context filter was applied. (#8278)
+    - Fix edge case where push could get delayed for a user until a
+      later event was pushed. (#8287)
+    - Fix fetching malformed events from remote servers. (#8324)
+    - Fix UnboundLocalError from occuring when appservices send a
+      malformed register request. (#8329)
+    - Don't send push notifications to expired user accounts.
+      (#8353)
+    - Fix a regression in v1.19.0 with reactivating users through
+      the admin API. (#8362)
+    - Fix a bug where during device registration the length of the
+      device name wasn't limited. (#8364)
+    - Include guest_access in the fields that are checked for null
+      bytes when updating room_stats_state. Broke in v1.7.2.
+      (#8373)
+    - Fix theoretical race condition where events are not sent down
+      /sync if the synchrotron worker is restarted without
+      restarting other workers. (#8374)
+    - Fix a bug which could cause errors in rooms with malformed
+      membership events, on servers using sqlite. (#8385)
+    - Fix "Re-starting finished log context" warning when receiving
+      an event we already had over federation. (#8398)
+    - Fix incorrect handling of timeouts on outgoing HTTP requests.
+      (#8400)
+    - Fix a regression in v1.20.0 in the synapse_port_db script
+      regarding the ui_auth_sessions_ips table. (#8410)
+    - Remove unnecessary 3PID registration check when resetting
+      password via an email address. Bug introduced in v0.34.0rc2.
+      (#8414)
+  - Improved Documentation
+    - Add /_synapse/client to the reverse proxy documentation.
+      (#8227)
+    - Add note to the reverse proxy settings documentation about
+      disabling Apache's mod_security2. Contributed by Julian
+      Fietkau (@jfietkau). (#8375)
+    - Improve description of server_name config option in
+      homserver.yaml. (#8415)
+  - Deprecations and Removals
+    - Drop support for prometheus_client older than 0.4.0. (#8426)
+  - Internal Changes
+    - Fix tests on distros which disable TLSv1.0. Contributed by
+      @danc86. (#8208)
+    - Simplify the distributor code to avoid unnecessary work.
+      (#8216)
+    - Remove the populate_stats_process_rooms_2 background job and
+      restore functionality to populate_stats_process_rooms.
+      (#8243)
+    - Clean up type hints for PaginationConfig. (#8250, #8282)
+    - Track the latest event for every destination and room for
+      catch-up after federation outage. (#8256)
+    - Fix non-user visible bug in implementation of
+      MultiWriterIdGenerator.get_current_token_for_writer. (#8257)
+    - Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library.
+      (#8259)
+    - Add type hints to synapse.util.async_helpers. (#8260)
+    - Simplify tests that mock asynchronous functions. (#8261)
+    - Add type hints to StreamToken and RoomStreamToken classes.
+      (#8279)
+    - Change StreamToken.room_key to be a RoomStreamToken instance.
+      (#8281)
+    - Refactor notifier code to correctly use the max event stream
+      position. (#8288)
+    - Use slotted classes where possible. (#8296)
+    - Support testing the local Synapse checkout against the
+      Complement homeserver test suite. (#8317)
+    - Update outdated usages of metaclass to python 3 syntax.
+      (#8326)
+    - Move lint-related dependencies to package-extra field, update
+      CONTRIBUTING.md to utilise this. (#8330, #8377)
+    - Use the admin_patterns helper in additional locations.
+      (#8331)
+    - Fix test logging to allow braces in log output. (#8335)
+    - Remove __future__ imports related to Python 2 compatibility.
+      (#8337)
+    - Simplify super() calls to Python 3 syntax. (#8344)
+    - Fix bad merge from release-v1.20.0 branch to develop. (#8354)
+    - Factor out a _send_dummy_event_for_room method. (#8370)
+    - Improve logging of state resolution. (#8371)
+    - Add type annotations to SimpleHttpClient. (#8372)
+    - Refactor ID generators to use async with syntax. (#8383)
+    - Add EventStreamPosition type. (#8388)
+    - Create a mechanism for marking tests "logcontext clean".
+      (#8399)
+    - A pair of tiny cleanups in the federation request code.
+      (#8401)
+    - Add checks on startup that PostgreSQL sequences are
+      consistent with their associated tables. (#8402)
+    - Do not include appservice users when calculating the total
+      MAU for a server. (#8404)
+    - Typing fixes for synapse.handlers.federation. (#8422)
+    - Various refactors to simplify stream token handling. (#8423)
+    - Make stream token serializing/deserializing async. (#8427)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 24 19:02:21 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.obsinfo b/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
index 0f34f90..3a06b92 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
+++ b/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: matrix-synapse
-version: 1.20.1
-mtime: 1600961731
-commit: ab903e7337f6c2c7cfcdac69b13dedf67e56d801
+version: 1.21.1
+mtime: 1602581236
+commit: 58e583eac1204e6eee6ee924a798180542f1e2c0
 
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.spec b/matrix-synapse.spec
index bae4f89..b1aff48 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.spec
+++ b/matrix-synapse.spec
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 %define         modname synapse
 %define         pkgname matrix-synapse
 Name:           %{pkgname}
-Version:        1.20.1
+Version:        1.21.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Matrix protocol reference homeserver
 License:        Apache-2.0