diff --git a/python-setuptools.changes b/python-setuptools.changes
index 9309247..b2ab530 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.changes
+++ b/python-setuptools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 16 09:16:42 UTC 2019 - Ondřej Súkup <mimi.vx@gmail.com>
+
+- update to 41.0.0
+ * #1735: When parsing setup.cfg files, setuptools now requires the files
+    to be encoded as UTF-8. Any other encoding will lead to a UnicodeDecodeError.
+    This change removes support for specifying an encoding using a 'coding: '
+    directive in the header of the file, a feature that was introduces in 40.7.
+    Given the recent release of the aforementioned feature, it is assumed that
+    few if any projects are utilizing the feature to specify an encoding
+    other than UTF-8.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Feb 10 22:30:38 UTC 2019 - Arun Persaud <arun@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/python-setuptools.spec b/python-setuptools.spec
index f77fca9..0bad558 100644
--- a/python-setuptools.spec
+++ b/python-setuptools.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 %define oldpython python
 Name:           python-setuptools
-Version:        40.8.0
+Version:        41.0.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Enhancements to distutils for building and distributing Python packages
 License:        Python-2.0 OR ZPL-2.0
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ sed -r -i '1s@^#!/.*$@@' setuptools/command/easy_install.py
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 # Can not run testsuite as this introduces build cycle
-#%check
+#%%check
 #export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 #python setup.py ptr --addopts='-rxs'
 
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index 79167a7..0000000
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 845071
diff --git a/setuptools-41.0.0.zip b/setuptools-41.0.0.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c63aa31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setuptools-41.0.0.zip
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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