diff --git a/apprise-1.7.6.tar.gz b/apprise-1.7.6.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d678e8..0000000
--- a/apprise-1.7.6.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:077f09309cc8a6c9063dbd614b343807d527d546693b7fe8fc5a4433502fea6c
-size 1656123
diff --git a/apprise-1.8.1.tar.gz b/apprise-1.8.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c68696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apprise-1.8.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:08a20fe72672b7e90f7969d5b879d657c2e2db385a8a8c10f54cba565bf237f2
+size 1696426
diff --git a/apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch b/apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 523e1d3..0000000
--- a/apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur apprise-1.6.0/test/conftest.py apprise-1.6.0-patched/test/conftest.py
---- apprise-1.6.0/test/conftest.py	2023-12-27 11:20:40.000000000 -0500
-+++ apprise-1.6.0-patched/test/conftest.py	2023-12-27 13:43:22.583100037 -0500
-@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
- A_MGR = AttachmentManager()
- 
- 
--@pytest.fixture(scope="function", autouse=True)
--def no_throttling_everywhere(session_mocker):
-+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-+def no_throttling_everywhere(mocker):
-     """
-     A pytest session fixture which disables throttling on all notifiers.
-     It is automatically enabled.
-@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@
-     A_MGR.unload_modules()
- 
-     for plugin in N_MGR.plugins():
--        session_mocker.patch.object(plugin, "request_rate_per_sec", 0)
-+        mocker.patch.object(plugin, "request_rate_per_sec", 0)
diff --git a/python-apprise.changes b/python-apprise.changes
index c2c53c3..e529fee 100644
--- a/python-apprise.changes
+++ b/python-apprise.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul 26 17:22:58 UTC 2024 - Joshua Smith <smolsheep@opensuse.org>
+
+- Remove apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch -- Fixed upstream
+- Update to version 1.8.1:
+  Features:
+  * New Services:
+    - Splunk
+    - Africas Talking
+    - Microsoft Power Automate / Workflows
+    - Société Française du Radiotéléphone (SFR)
+  * Slack supports <@userid> in message body
+  * Turn large ntfy messages into a attachments
+  * Refactored the way Notifiarr Discord users are mentioned
+  * OneSignal to support custom data in payload
+  * Twilio WhatsApp support added
+  * Allow json data in OneSignal template arguments
+  Fixes:
+  * Automatically increment Matrix v3 transaction IDs
+  * Slack files upload deprecation
+  * Update token regex in ServerChan
+  * Add missing % string in import failed trace message
+  * This will fix issues with Home Assistant
+  * Fixes random matrix:// unittest failures
+  * fix: conversion html_to_text hr tags rstrip non string object
+
+- Updates from version 1.8.0:
+  Features:
+  * Custom Plugin Attachment Support Enforced + Added Testing
+  * Do not sanitize http:// attachment URLs. This allows the
+    successful fetching of very complicated http based Attachment
+    URL's where the case sensitivity of the keys matter. The side
+    effect of this change, is built in switches like cache= become
+    case sensitive too (e.g Cache= will no longer be parsed).
+  Fixes:
+  * Added JSON Content-Type header to freemobile://
+  * Fix mailto://ip.addr support
+  * clicksend:// authentication bugfix
+  * Update Apprise API (apprise//) token length
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 23 02:48:34 UTC 2024 - Joshua Smith <smolsheep@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python-apprise.spec b/python-apprise.spec
index 2fa2250..1909ff9 100644
--- a/python-apprise.spec
+++ b/python-apprise.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           python-apprise
-Version:        1.7.6
+Version:        1.8.1
 Release:        0
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 Summary:        A simple wrapper to many popular notification services used today
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ Source99:       %{name}.rpmlintrc
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE fix-test_plugin_glib.patch -- import missing dbus
 Patch0:         fix-test_plugin_glib.patch
 %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1500
-# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch -- based on PR 757
-Patch10:        apprise-pytest-session_mocker-removal.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module dataclasses}
 Requires:       python-dataclasses
 %endif
@@ -111,7 +109,7 @@ install -D -m 0644 -t %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1 packaging/man/apprise.1
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %check
-%pytest -k 'not test_plugin_matrix_attachments_api_v2 and not test_apprise_attachment_truncate'
+%pytest -k 'not test_plugin_matrix_attachments_api_v2 and not test_apprise_attachment_truncate and not test_plugin_dbus'
 
 %pre
 %python_libalternatives_reset_alternative apprise