diff --git a/python-watchdog.changes b/python-watchdog.changes
index d5b4f4d..70b5696 100644
--- a/python-watchdog.changes
+++ b/python-watchdog.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul 23 11:29:19 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 2.1.9:
+  * [fsevents] Fix flakey test to assert that there are no errors when stopping the emitter.
+  * [inotify] Suppress occasional ``OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor`` at shutdown. 
+  * [watchmedo] Make ``auto-restart`` restart the sub-process if it terminates. 
+  * [watchmedo] Avoid zombie sub-processes when running ``shell-command`` without ``--wait``. 
+  * Fix adding failed emitters on observer schedule. 
+  * [inotify] Fix hang when unscheduling watch on a path in an unmounted filesystem. 
+  * [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of ``--kill-after`` argument for the ``auto-restart`` command. 
+  * [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of boolean arguments. 
+  * [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of commands from ``auto-restart``, and ``shell-command``. 
+  * [watchmedo] Support setting verbosity level via ``-q/--quiet`` and ``-v/--verbose`` arguments. 
+  * Thanks to our beloved contributors: @taleinat, @kianmeng, @palfrey, @IlayRosenberg, @BoboTiG
+  * Eliminate timeout in waiting on event queue. 
+  * [inotify] Fix ``not`` equality implementation for ``InotifyEvent``. 
+  * [watchmedo] Fix calling commands from within a Python script. 
+  * [watchmedo] ``PyYAML`` is loaded only when strictly necessary.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Oct 10 19:18:31 UTC 2021 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-watchdog.spec b/python-watchdog.spec
index cb49014..a153504 100644
--- a/python-watchdog.spec
+++ b/python-watchdog.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-watchdog
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python3-%{**}}
 %define skip_python2 1
 Name:           python-watchdog
-Version:        2.1.6
+Version:        2.1.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Filesystem events monitoring
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ cd docs && make html && rm -r build/html/.buildinfo build/html/objects.inv # Bui
 sed -i '/--cov/d' setup.cfg
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 # test_event_dispatcher randomly fails on SLE15
-%pytest -k 'not test_event_dispatcher'
+# test_unmount_watched_directory_filesystem requires sudo/root which is not available
+%pytest -k 'not test_event_dispatcher and not test_unmount_watched_directory_filesystem'
 
 %post
 %python_install_alternative watchmedo
diff --git a/watchdog-2.1.6.tar.gz b/watchdog-2.1.6.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f4a2e0..0000000
--- a/watchdog-2.1.6.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:a36e75df6c767cbf46f61a91c70b3ba71811dfa0aca4a324d9407a06a8b7a2e7
-size 107292
diff --git a/watchdog-2.1.9.tar.gz b/watchdog-2.1.9.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90bb3fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/watchdog-2.1.9.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:43ce20ebb36a51f21fa376f76d1d4692452b2527ccd601950d69ed36b9e21609
+size 119171