diff --git a/flit-3.8.0.tar.gz b/flit-3.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 2148261..0000000
--- a/flit-3.8.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d0f2a8f4bd45dc794befbf5839ecc0fd3830d65a57bd52b5997542fac5d5e937
-size 139496
diff --git a/flit-3.9.0.tar.gz b/flit-3.9.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1f6f2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flit-3.9.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:d75edf5eb324da20d53570a6a6f87f51e606eee8384925cd66a90611140844c7
+size 141104
diff --git a/python-flit.changes b/python-flit.changes
index 28c92fe..bfd10e5 100644
--- a/python-flit.changes
+++ b/python-flit.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,29 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  7 10:50:43 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 3.9.0:
+  * New options :option:`flit build --use-vcs` and :option:`flit
+    build --no-use-vcs` to enable & disable including all
+    committed files in the sdist. For now --use-vcs is the
+    default, but this is likely to change in a
+    future version, to bring flit build in line with standard
+    build frontends like python -m build
+  * Sdist file names, and the name of the top-level folder in an
+    sdist, are now normalised, in accordance with PEP 625
+  * A statically defined version number can now be parsed from
+    files called version.py, _version.py or __version__.py inside
+    a packge, as well as from __init__.py, so executing code is
+    required in fewer cases
+  * Fix setting the flag for regular files in zip metadata
+  * The timestamp embedded in the gzip wrapper for sdists now
+    defaults to a fixed date, so building an sdist twice on the
+    same machine should produce identical results, even without
+    any special steps.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 10 09:01:51 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
-- skip install tests for better interoperability with PEP 668 
+- skip install tests for better interoperability with PEP 668
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 10 06:11:46 UTC 2023 - Johannes Kastl <kastl@b1-systems.de>
diff --git a/python-flit.spec b/python-flit.spec
index 8752ac1..dc590e2 100644
--- a/python-flit.spec
+++ b/python-flit.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define skip_python2 1
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-flit
-Version:        3.8.0
+Version:        3.9.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Simplified packaging of Python modules
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@ URL:            https://github.com/pypa/flit
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/f/flit/flit-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.6}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module docutils}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module flit-core >= 3.8.0}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module flit-core >= %{version}}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pip}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tomli-w}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 Requires:       python-docutils
-Requires:       python-flit-core >= 3.8.0
+Requires:       python-flit-core >= %{version}
 Requires:       python-requests
 Requires:       python-tomli-w
 Requires(post): update-alternatives