diff --git a/alembic-1.0.8.tar.gz b/alembic-1.0.8.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 5021868..0000000
--- a/alembic-1.0.8.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:505d41e01dc0c9e6d85c116d0d35dbb0a833dcb490bf483b75abeb06648864e8
-size 1030713
diff --git a/alembic-1.0.9.tar.gz b/alembic-1.0.9.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b3f776
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alembic-1.0.9.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:40b9a619aa5f25ea1e1508adcda88b33704ef28e02c9cfa6471e5c772ecf0829
+size 1017432
diff --git a/python-alembic.changes b/python-alembic.changes
index 23213f9..0428cef 100644
--- a/python-alembic.changes
+++ b/python-alembic.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Apr 21 22:01:52 UTC 2019 - Arun Persaud <arun@gmx.de>
+
+- update to version 1.0.9:
+  * Simplified the internal scheme used to generate the alembic.op
+    namespace to no longer attempt to generate full method signatures
+    (e.g. rather than generic *args, **kw) as this was not working in
+    most cases anyway, while in rare circumstances it would in fact
+    sporadically have access to the real argument names and then fail
+    when generating the function due to missing symbols in the
+    argument signature.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar  6 11:27:34 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-alembic.spec b/python-alembic.spec
index 090d1e9..618d6fb 100644
--- a/python-alembic.spec
+++ b/python-alembic.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-alembic
-Version:        1.0.8
+Version:        1.0.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A database migration tool for SQLAlchemy
 License:        MIT
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ offers the following functionality:
 %python_clone -a %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/alembic
 
 %check
-%python_expand PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib} py.test-%{$python_version}
+%pytest
 
 %post
 %python_install_alternative alembic