diff --git a/execnet-1.8.0.tar.gz b/execnet-1.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 11fbdf0..0000000
--- a/execnet-1.8.0.tar.gz
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-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b73c5565e517f24b62dea8a5ceac178c661c4309d3aa0c3e420856c072c411b4
-size 173765
diff --git a/execnet-1.9.0.tar.gz b/execnet-1.9.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58bf92f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/execnet-1.9.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:8f694f3ba9cc92cab508b152dcfe322153975c29bda272e2fd7f3f00f36e47c5
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diff --git a/python-execnet.changes b/python-execnet.changes
index 198fbbb..2974398 100644
--- a/python-execnet.changes
+++ b/python-execnet.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Dec 12 16:55:20 UTC 2021 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- update to 1.9.0
+  * Removed the apipkg dependency.
+- Release 1.8.1
+  * Update calls of threading.Event.isSet() to
+    threading.Event.is_set(), which avoids a deprecation warning
+    with Python 3.10.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  2 09:57:10 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-execnet.spec b/python-execnet.spec
index db1fc21..af469a7 100644
--- a/python-execnet.spec
+++ b/python-execnet.spec
@@ -18,21 +18,19 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-execnet
-Version:        1.8.0
+Version:        1.9.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Rapid multi-Python deployment
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/e/execnet/execnet-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module apipkg}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools_scm}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  procps
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
-Requires:       python-apipkg
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %python_subpackages