diff --git a/google-api-core-1.22.4.tar.gz b/google-api-core-1.22.4.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index e97c4e0..0000000
--- a/google-api-core-1.22.4.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:4a9d7ac2527a9e298eebb580a5e24e7e41d6afd97010848dd0f306cae198ec1a
-size 93054
diff --git a/google-api-core-1.24.1.tar.gz b/google-api-core-1.24.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5afc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-api-core-1.24.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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diff --git a/python-google-api-core.changes b/python-google-api-core.changes
index 55b12f5..f30b977 100644
--- a/python-google-api-core.changes
+++ b/python-google-api-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan  6 14:55:34 UTC 2021 - Matthias Fehring <buschmann23@opensuse.org>
+
+- Skip build on python2 as it is not supported anymore
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan  6 14:48:36 UTC 2021 - Matthias Fehring <buschmann23@opensuse.org>
+
+- Update to 1.24.1
+  * support 'retry' for ops built from HTTP/gRPC responses
+    (gh#googleapis/python-api-core#115)
+- from version 1.24.0
+  * add support for Python 3.9, drop support for Python 3.5
+    (gh#googleapis/python-api-core#111)
+- from version 1.23.0
+  * api-core: pass retry from result() to done()
+    (gh#googleapis/python-api-core#9)
+  * map LRO errors to library exception types
+    (gh#googleapis/python-api-core#15)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct  7 06:13:07 UTC 2020 - John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/python-google-api-core.spec b/python-google-api-core.spec
index 1e9521c..7d23548 100644
--- a/python-google-api-core.spec
+++ b/python-google-api-core.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-google-api-core
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
-%bcond_without python2
+%define         skip_python2 1
 Name:           python-google-api-core
-Version:        1.22.4
+Version:        1.24.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Google API client core library
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -30,13 +30,15 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module google-auth >= 1.21.1}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module googleapis-common-protos >= 1.6.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module grpcio >= 1.29.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module grpcio-gcp >= 0.2.2}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module protobuf >= 3.12.0}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytz}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests >= 2.18.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools >= 34.0.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six >= 1.13.0}
+# START TESTING SECTION
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
+# END TESTIN SECTION
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 Requires:       python-google-auth >= 1.21.1