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diff --git a/python-ipywidgets.changes b/python-ipywidgets.changes
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Sep 24 17:49:04 UTC 2023 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Update to 8.1.1
+  * Raise error when copy method is used on base widget class by
+    @mmc1718 in #3780
+  * Reverts #3689 and #3738 back to the original working codebase
+    by @martinRenou in #3830
+
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 Fri Aug 18 18:01:24 UTC 2023 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-ipywidgets.spec b/python-ipywidgets.spec
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 Name:           python-ipywidgets
-Version:        8.1.0
+Version:        8.1.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter
 License:        BSD-3-Clause