diff --git a/fsspec-2022.11.0.tar.gz b/fsspec-2022.11.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 3549ca7..0000000
--- a/fsspec-2022.11.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0c0c8373aba084c192396796eb3445841627fa16c7e43fc984439ae5b1b87545
-size 341238
diff --git a/fsspec-2023.3.0.tar.gz b/fsspec-2023.3.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6a2687
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fsspec-2023.3.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:90ec0c5d25c531afab3945f187ab2748494c7cfb26bb07d0ee79af82d921b336
+size 352340
diff --git a/python-fsspec.changes b/python-fsspec.changes
index 613102a..85868bb 100644
--- a/python-fsspec.changes
+++ b/python-fsspec.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 24 14:09:44 UTC 2023 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Update to 2023.3.0
+  ## Enhancements
+  * #1201, add directory FS to the registry and constructable from URLs
+  * #1194, allow JSON for setting dict-like kwargs in the config
+  * #1181, give arrow FS proper place in the registry
+  * #1178, add experimental background-thread buffering cache
+  * #1162, make ZipFS writable
+  ## Fixes
+  * #1202, fix on_error="omit" when using caching's cat
+  * #1199, 1163, get/put/cp consistency and empty directories
+  * #1197, 1183 use bytes for setting value on mapper using numpy
+  * #1191, clean up open files in spec get_file
+  * #1164, pass on kwargs correctly to http
+  ## Other
+  * #1186, make seekable=True default for pyarrow files
+  * #1184, 1185, set minimum python version to 3.8
+- Release 2023.1.0
+  ## Enhancements
+  * experimental DFReferenceFileSystem (#1157, 1138)
+  * pyarrow seeking (#1154)
+  * tar thread safety (#1132)
+  * fsid method (#1122)
+  ## Fixes
+  * ReferenceFS order fix (#1158)
+  * fix du and maxdepth (#1128, 1151)
+  * http ranges (#1141)
+  ## Other
+  * coverage on referenceFS (#1133, 1123)
+  * docs (#1152, 1150)
+  * remove code duplication in unchain (#1143, 1156, 1121)
+- Skip testing distributed for Python 3.11: no numba yet
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Nov 19 14:48:38 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-fsspec.spec b/python-fsspec.spec
index 3ef61bd..9f55802 100644
--- a/python-fsspec.spec
+++ b/python-fsspec.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@
 %bcond_with test
 %endif
 Name:           python-fsspec%{psuffix}
-Version:        2022.11.0
+Version:        2023.3.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Filesystem specification package
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 URL:            https://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec
 # the tests are only in the GitHub archive
 Source:         https://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/fsspec-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.7}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.8}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  fuse
@@ -54,9 +54,12 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 %if %{with test}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module aiohttp}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module cloudpickle}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module distributed}
+# no numba and distributed for py311 yet
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module distributed if %python-base < 3.11}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module fastparquet}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module fusepy}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module gcsfs}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module lz4}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module notebook}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module numpy}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module panel}
@@ -101,6 +104,8 @@ donttest+=" or test_not_cached"
 donttest+=" or test_dbfs"
 # wants to connect to ftp.fau.de
 donttest+=" or test_find"
+# does not like the '.' from the version in the build path
+donttest+=" or (test_local and test_make_path_posix)"
 %pytest -rfEs  -k "not ($donttest)"
 %endif