diff --git a/beautifulsoup4-4.8.0.tar.gz b/beautifulsoup4-4.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 657433e..0000000
--- a/beautifulsoup4-4.8.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 170919
diff --git a/beautifulsoup4-4.8.1.tar.gz b/beautifulsoup4-4.8.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d4c45d
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+++ b/beautifulsoup4-4.8.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
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+size 159164
diff --git a/beautifulsoup4-lxml-fixes.patch b/beautifulsoup4-lxml-fixes.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9db195a..0000000
--- a/beautifulsoup4-lxml-fixes.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-Index: beautifulsoup4-4.6.1/bs4/testing.py
-===================================================================
---- beautifulsoup4-4.6.1.orig/bs4/testing.py
-+++ beautifulsoup4-4.6.1/bs4/testing.py
-@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ class XMLTreeBuilderSmokeTest(object):
-         self.assertTrue(b"< < hey > >" in encoded)
- 
-     def test_can_parse_unicode_document(self):
--        markup = u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="euc-jp"><root>Sacr\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE} bleu!</root>'
-+        markup = u'<?xml version="1.0""><root>Sacr\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE} bleu!</root>'
-         soup = self.soup(markup)
-         self.assertEqual(u'Sacr\xe9 bleu!', soup.root.string)
- 
-Index: beautifulsoup4-4.6.1/bs4/tests/test_lxml.py
-===================================================================
---- beautifulsoup4-4.6.1.orig/bs4/tests/test_lxml.py
-+++ beautifulsoup4-4.6.1/bs4/tests/test_lxml.py
-@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class LXMLTreeBuilderSmokeTest(SoupTest,
-         # Make sure that the deprecated BSS class uses an xml builder
-         # if one is installed.
-         with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-+            warnings.simplefilter("always")
-             soup = BeautifulStoneSoup("<b />")
-         self.assertEqual(u"<b/>", unicode(soup.b))
-         self.assertTrue("BeautifulStoneSoup class is deprecated" in str(w[0].message))
diff --git a/python-beautifulsoup4.changes b/python-beautifulsoup4.changes
index 16445e8..1a6c506 100644
--- a/python-beautifulsoup4.changes
+++ b/python-beautifulsoup4.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov  1 08:59:57 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 4.8.1:
+  * When the html.parser or html5lib parsers are in use, Beautiful Soup
+    will, by default, record the position in the original document where
+    each tag was encountered.
+  * Fixed the definition of the default XML namespace when using
+    lxml 4.4.
+  * Avoid a crash when unpickling certain parse trees generated
+    using html5lib on Python 3.
+  * Avoid a crash when trying to detect the declared encoding of a
+    Unicode document.
+- Drop patch beautifulsoup4-lxml-fixes.patch as it seems not needed
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 14 11:41:52 UTC 2019 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
+
+- Replace %fdupes -s with plain %fdupes; hardlinks are better.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 22 16:18:23 UTC 2019 - Todd R <toddrme2178@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/python-beautifulsoup4.spec b/python-beautifulsoup4.spec
index f0ae2b1..cf5b21c 100644
--- a/python-beautifulsoup4.spec
+++ b/python-beautifulsoup4.spec
@@ -18,15 +18,12 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-beautifulsoup4
-Version:        4.8.0
+Version:        4.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        HTML/XML Parser for Quick-Turnaround Applications Like Screen-Scraping
 License:        MIT
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 URL:            https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/beautifulsoup4-%{version}.tar.gz
-# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM speilicke@suse.com -- Backport of https://code.launchpad.net/~saschpe/beautifulsoup/beautifulsoup/+merge/200849
-Patch0:         beautifulsoup4-lxml-fixes.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module soupsieve}
@@ -68,7 +65,6 @@ Beautiful Soup.
 
 %package -n python-beautifulsoup4-doc
 Summary:        Documentation for %{name}
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 Recommends:     %{name} = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      python2-beautifulsoup4-doc
 Obsoletes:      python3-beautifulsoup4-doc
@@ -78,7 +74,6 @@ Documentation and help files for %{name}
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n beautifulsoup4-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -86,12 +81,12 @@ pushd doc && make html && rm build/html/.buildinfo build/html/objects.inv &&  po
 
 %install
 %python_install
-%python_expand %fdupes -s %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
+%python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %check
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
-%python_expand PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib} py.test-%{$python_bin_suffix} %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/bs4/tests
+%pytest %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/bs4/tests
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %license COPYING.txt