diff --git a/_service b/_service
index 4c3e563..4895289 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">v1.18.0</param>
+    <param name="revision">v1.19.1</param>
     <param name="versionrewrite-pattern">v(.*)</param>
     <param name="versionrewrite-replacement">\1</param>
     <!--
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-1.18.0.obscpio b/matrix-synapse-1.18.0.obscpio
deleted file mode 100644
index 89e1082..0000000
--- a/matrix-synapse-1.18.0.obscpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:c0381b5786225968cf36f92d3fb0e6cc27560be644d2eef22b33f18a81c1ac4e
-size 27662861
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-1.19.1.obscpio b/matrix-synapse-1.19.1.obscpio
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95253d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matrix-synapse-1.19.1.obscpio
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:65ce0942af74944ceaced25770a18aa521c49fc08061cd642d65873a2113e516
+size 27730957
diff --git a/matrix-synapse-test.spec b/matrix-synapse-test.spec
index 282bcc9..01e937b 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse-test.spec
+++ b/matrix-synapse-test.spec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 %define         pkgname matrix-synapse
 Name:           %{pkgname}-test
-Version:        1.18.0
+Version:        1.19.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Test package for %{pkgname}
 License:        Apache-2.0
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.changes b/matrix-synapse.changes
index dece520..6c28c3f 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.changes
+++ b/matrix-synapse.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,100 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 27 13:10:02 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- Update to synapse to 1.19.1
+  - Bugfixes
+    - Fix a bug introduced in v1.19.0 where appservices with
+      ratelimiting disabled would still be ratelimited when joining
+      rooms. (#8139)
+    - Fix a bug introduced in v1.19.0 that would cause e.g. profile
+      updates to fail due to incorrect application of rate limits
+      on join requests. (#8153)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 17 14:36:41 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- Update to synapse 1.19.0
+  - Features
+    - Add option to allow server admins to join rooms which fail
+      complexity checks. Contributed by @lugino-emeritus. (#7902)
+    - Add an option to purge room or not with delete room admin
+      endpoint (POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/delete).
+      Contributed by @dklimpel. (#7964)
+    - Add rate limiting to users joining rooms. (#8008)
+    - Add a /health endpoint to every configured HTTP listener that
+      can be used as a health check endpoint by load balancers.
+      (#8048)
+    - Allow login to be blocked based on the values of SAML
+      attributes. (#8052)
+    - Allow guest access to the GET
+      /_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/members endpoint,
+      according to MSC2689. Contributed by Awesome Technologies
+      Innovationslabor GmbH. (#7314)
+  - Bugfixes
+    - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.7.2 which caused
+      inaccurate membership counts in the room directory. (#7977)
+    - Fix a long standing bug: 'Duplicate key value violates unique
+      constraint "event_relations_id"' when message retention is
+      configured. (#7978)
+    - Fix "no create event in auth events" when trying to reject
+      invitation after inviter leaves. Bug introduced in Synapse
+      v1.10.0. (#7980)
+    - Fix various comments and minor discrepencies in server
+      notices code. (#7996)
+    - Fix a long standing bug where HTTP HEAD requests resulted in
+      a 400 error. (#7999)
+    - Fix a long-standing bug which caused two copies of some log
+      lines to be written when synctl was used along with a
+      MemoryHandler logger. (#8011, #8012)
+  - Updates to the Docker image
+    - We no longer publish Docker images with the -py3 tag suffix,
+      as announced in the upgrade notes. (#8056)
+  - Improved Documentation
+    - Document how to set up a client .well-known file and fix
+      several pieces of outdated documentation. (#7899)
+    - Improve workers docs. (#7990, #8000)
+    - Fix typo in docs/workers.md. (#7992)
+    - Add documentation for how to undo a room shutdown. (#7998,
+      #8010)
+  - Internal Changes
+    - Reduce the amount of whitespace in JSON stored and sent in
+      responses. Contributed by David Vo. (#7372)
+    - Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library
+      and bump the minimum version of the canonicaljson library to
+      1.2.0. (#7936, #7979)
+    - Convert various parts of the codebase to async/await. (#7947,
+      #7948, #7949, #7951, #7963, #7973, #7975, #7976, #7981,
+      #7987, #7989, #8003, #8014, #8016, #8027, #8031, #8032,
+      #8035, #8042, #8044, #8045, #8061, #8062, #8063, #8066,
+      #8069, #8070)
+    - Move some database-related log lines from the default logger
+      to the database/transaction loggers. (#7952)
+    - Add a script to detect source code files using non-unix line
+      terminators. (#7965, #7970)
+    - Log the SAML session ID during creation. (#7971)
+    - Implement new experimental push rules for some users. (#7997)
+    - Remove redundant and unreliable signature check for v1
+      Identity Service lookup responses. (#8001)
+    - Improve the performance of the register endpoint. (#8009)
+    - Reduce less useful output in the newsfragment CI step. Add a
+      link to the changelog section of the contributing guide on
+      error. (#8024)
+    - Rename storage layer objects to be more sensible. (#8033)
+    - Change the default log config to reduce disk I/O and storage
+      for new servers. (#8040)
+    - Add an assertion on prev_events in create_new_client_event.
+      (#8041)
+    - Add a comment to ServerContextFactory about the use of
+      SSLv23_METHOD. (#8043)
+    - Log OPTIONS requests at DEBUG rather than INFO level to
+      reduce amount logged at INFO. (#8049)
+    - Reduce amount of outbound request logging at INFO level.
+      (#8050)
+    - It is no longer necessary to explicitly define filters in the
+      logging configuration. (Continuing to do so is redundant but
+      harmless.) (#8051)
+    - Add and improve type hints. (#8058, #8064, #8060, #8067)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 30 11:40:22 UTC 2020 - Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.obsinfo b/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
index d4458e4..8491494 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
+++ b/matrix-synapse.obsinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: matrix-synapse
-version: 1.18.0
-mtime: 1596106751
-commit: 320ef98852227210c630955dd4ad863a764a617c
+version: 1.19.1
+mtime: 1598521839
+commit: eadfda3ebc165317c634948826d50794b11dad46
 
diff --git a/matrix-synapse.spec b/matrix-synapse.spec
index 728b216..c17fcca 100644
--- a/matrix-synapse.spec
+++ b/matrix-synapse.spec
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 %define         modname synapse
 %define         pkgname matrix-synapse
 Name:           %{pkgname}
-Version:        1.18.0
+Version:        1.19.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Matrix protocol reference homeserver
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -90,10 +90,8 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-bcrypt >= 3.1.0
 %requires_eq    python3-bcrypt
 BuildRequires:  python3-bleach >= 1.4.3
 %requires_eq    python3-bleach
-BuildRequires:  python3-canonicaljson >= 1.1.3
+BuildRequires:  python3-canonicaljson >= 1.2.0
 %requires_eq    python3-canonicaljson
-BuildRequires:  python3-daemonize >= 2.3.1
-%requires_eq    python3-daemonize
 BuildRequires:  python3-frozendict >= 1
 %requires_eq    python3-frozendict
 BuildRequires:  python3-idna >= 2.5