diff --git a/Alien-Build-1.25.tar.gz b/Alien-Build-1.25.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ade33a..0000000
--- a/Alien-Build-1.25.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:59f6094755ae23a8a1956128f10971fabd840a8a309154fe0964d69239041f4b
-size 212527
diff --git a/Alien-Build-1.39.tar.gz b/Alien-Build-1.39.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69d7b42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Alien-Build-1.39.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:b9f0a4c0090e5d9137636b5a1ae876536635640943e6265b3abc099aec20daaf
+size 217945
diff --git a/cpanspec.yml b/cpanspec.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1654dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpanspec.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+#description_paragraphs: 3
+#description: |-
+#  override description from CPAN
+#summary: override summary from CPAN
+#no_testing: broken upstream
+#sources:
+#  - source1
+#  - source2
+#patches:
+#  foo.patch: -p1
+#  bar.patch:
+preamble: |-
+ BuildRequires:  pkg-config
+#post_prep: |-
+# hunspell=`pkg-config --libs hunspell | sed -e 's,-l,,; s,  *,,g'`
+# sed -i -e "s,hunspell-X,$hunspell," t/00-prereq.t Makefile.PL 
+#post_build: |-
+# rm unused.files
+#post_install: |-
+# sed on %{name}.files
+#license: SUSE-NonFree
+#skip_noarch: 1
+#custom_build: |-
+#./Build build flags=%{?_smp_mflags} --myflag
+#custom_test: |-
+#startserver && make test
+#ignore_requires: Bizarre::Module
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Build.changes b/perl-Alien-Build.changes
index e0883af..40caf1b 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Build.changes
+++ b/perl-Alien-Build.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,61 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 10 04:39:13 UTC 2018 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- updated to 1.39
+   see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Alien-Build/Changes
+
+  1.39      2018-03-09 05:51:47 -0500
+    - Production release identical to 1.38_01
+  
+  1.38_01   2018-03-01 03:27:29 -0500
+    - Additional testing diagnostics
+  
+  1.37      2018-02-23 10:13:44 -0500
+    - Fixed cmake test which would fail without a C++ compiler (gh#53 ppisar++)
+  
+  1.36      2018-02-05 10:51:59 -0500
+    - Production release identical to 1.35_01
+  
+  1.35_01   2017-12-28 12:42:56 -0500
+    - Improve diagnostic in command line extraction test
+  
+  1.34_01   2017-12-27 10:30:10 -0500
+    - Add env_interpolate meta property.
+    - PkgConfig plugins now attempt to set PKG_CONFIG environment variable during build
+  
+  1.33_01   2017-11-08 11:54:19 -0500
+    - Improve diagnostic for partially installed Alien error
+  
+  1.32      2017-11-03 13:15:35 -0400
+    - Add ALIEN_INSTALL_NETWORK environment variable.  Set to false if you don't
+      want to allow network fetch.
+  
+  1.31_01   2017-10-31 16:50:52 -0400
+    - Fix testing prereq bug introduced in 1.30_01.
+  
+  1.30_01   2017-10-31 14:24:15 -0400
+    - Add prefer property to Download::Negotiate plugin
+  
+  1.29_01   2017-10-30 09:54:22 -0400
+    - Fix bug in Alien::Base::Wrapper where -l flags were being ignored by EUMM
+    - MSYS plugin works with ffi build
+    - Windows specific fixes for Alien::Base::Wrapper
+    - Removed optional dependency on Test::Exec
+  
+  1.28      2017-10-29 19:39:19 -0400
+    - Production release identical to 1.27_01
+  
+  1.27_01   2017-10-27 10:26:18 -0400
+    - Fix incompatibility with older versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker where test
+      directive in alienfile was ignored.
+  
+  1.26_01   2017-10-25 12:28:58 -0400
+    - Fix Test::Alien bug where -L could be placed after directories specified in %Config
+      (this was already handled correctly by Alien::Base::Wrapper).
+    - Remove cpp and C++ options for xs_ok (I don't believe these were used in practice
+      and were issuing deprecation warnings for a while).
+    - A number of documentation errors have been fixed (jjatria++ leto++)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 10 05:19:19 UTC 2017 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Build.spec b/perl-Alien-Build.spec
index 5831c94..b53eb2d 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Build.spec
+++ b/perl-Alien-Build.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package perl-Alien-Build
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,14 +17,15 @@
 
 
 Name:           perl-Alien-Build
-Version:        1.25
+Version:        1.39
 Release:        0
 %define cpan_name Alien-Build
 Summary:        Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
-License:        Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0+
+License:        Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 Url:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Alien-Build/
 Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/%{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        cpanspec.yml
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
@@ -56,6 +57,9 @@ Requires:       perl(Test2::API) >= 1.302015
 Requires:       perl(Test2::Require) >= 0.000060
 Requires:       perl(Text::ParseWords) >= 3.26
 %{perl_requires}
+# MANUAL BEGIN
+BuildRequires:  pkg-config
+# MANUAL END
 
 %description
 This module provides tools for building external (non-CPAN) dependencies