diff --git a/Pygments-2.5.2.tar.gz b/Pygments-2.5.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 84f0b55..0000000
--- a/Pygments-2.5.2.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:98c8aa5a9f778fcd1026a17361ddaf7330d1b7c62ae97c3bb0ae73e0b9b6b0fe
-size 20263984
diff --git a/Pygments-2.6.1.tar.gz b/Pygments-2.6.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c4d4ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Pygments-2.6.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:647344a061c249a3b74e230c739f434d7ea4d8b1d5f3721bc0f3558049b38f44
+size 3303050
diff --git a/python-Pygments.changes b/python-Pygments.changes
index b4ec84a..b96c3ca 100644
--- a/python-Pygments.changes
+++ b/python-Pygments.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,50 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar  9 19:52:24 UTC 2020 - Benoît Monin <benoit.monin@gmx.fr>
+
+- update to version 2.6.1:
+  * This release fixes a packaging issue. No functional changes.
+- additional changes from version 2.6.0:
+  * Running Pygments on Python 2.x is no longer supported.
+  * Added lexers:
+    + Linux kernel logs (PR#1310)
+    + LLVM MIR (PR#1361)
+    + MiniScript (PR#1397)
+    + Mosel (PR#1287, PR#1326)
+    + Parsing Expression Grammar (PR#1336)
+    + ReasonML (PR#1386)
+    + Ride (PR#1319, PR#1321)
+    + Sieve (PR#1257)
+    + USD (PR#1290)
+    + WebIDL (PR#1309)
+  * Updated lexers:
+    + Apache2 (PR#1378)
+    + Chapel (PR#1357)
+    + CSound (PR#1383)
+    + D (PR#1375, PR#1362)
+    + Idris (PR#1360)
+    + Perl6/Raku lexer (PR#1344)
+    + Python3 (PR#1382, PR#1385)
+    + Rust: Updated lexer to cover more builtins (mostly macros)
+      and miscellaneous new syntax (PR#1320)
+    + SQL: Add temporal support keywords (PR#1402)
+  * The 256-color/true-color terminal formatters now support the
+    italic attribute in styles (PR#1288)
+  * Support HTTP 2/3 header (PR#1308)
+  * Support missing reason in HTTP header (PR#1322)
+  * Boogie/Silver: support line continuations and triggers, move
+    contract keywords to separate category (PR#1299)
+  * GAS: support C-style comments (PR#1291)
+  * Fix names in S lexer (PR#1330, PR#1333)
+  * Fix numeric literals in Ada (PR#1334)
+  * Recognize .mjs files as Javascript (PR#1392)
+  * Recognize .eex files as Elixir (PR#1387)
+  * Fix re.MULTILINE usage (PR#1388)
+  * Recognize pipenv and poetry dependency & lock files (PR#1376)
+  * Improve font search on Windows (#1247)
+  * Remove unused script block (#1401)
+- disable python2 build: Pygments is python 3 only now
+- remove shebang from pygments/lexers/_usd_builtins.py: unneeded
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Dec  8 17:22:40 UTC 2019 - Benoît Monin <benoit.monin@gmx.fr>
 
diff --git a/python-Pygments.spec b/python-Pygments.spec
index 7aa3da8..50abd6c 100644
--- a/python-Pygments.spec
+++ b/python-Pygments.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-Pygments
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
 #
 
 
+%define skip_python2 1
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-Pygments
-Version:        2.5.2
+Version:        2.6.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A syntax highlighting package written in Python
 License:        BSD-2-Clause
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@ source code. Highlights are:
 # Remove non-oss licensed files, see bnc# 760344
 rm tests/examplefiles/{Sorting,test}.mod
 
+# Remove unnecessary shebang
+sed -i '1 { /^#!/ d }' pygments/lexers/_usd_builtins.py
+
 %build
 %python_build