diff --git a/python-rencode.changes b/python-rencode.changes
index d13bfc3..8291fee 100644
--- a/python-rencode.changes
+++ b/python-rencode.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 22 03:56:14 UTC 2025 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 1.0.8:
+  * Add new build file to build the cython extension and update
+    pyproject.toml to use it.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 11 11:43:51 UTC 2025 - Markéta Machová <mmachova@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-rencode.spec b/python-rencode.spec
index be1d0ac..ad11200 100644
--- a/python-rencode.spec
+++ b/python-rencode.spec
@@ -17,19 +17,18 @@
 
 
 Name:           python-rencode
-Version:        1.0.6
+Version:        1.0.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Web safe object pickling/unpickling
 License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
-Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/aresch/rencode
 Source0:        https://github.com/aresch/rencode/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        %{name}.changes
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pip}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module poetry-core}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 %python_subpackages
@@ -42,11 +41,6 @@ b-encodings. Python2 version of package
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n rencode-%{version}
-# to "avoid python-bytecode-inconsistent-mtime" warnings
-FAKE_TIMESTAMP=$(LC_ALL=C date -u -r %{SOURCE1} +%%y%%m%%d%%H%%M)
-find . -name '*.py' -exec touch -mat $FAKE_TIMESTAMP {} \;
-# do not use O3
-sed -i -e '/extra_compile_args/d' setup.py
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing"
@@ -62,6 +56,6 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing"
 %files %{python_files}
 %license COPYING
 %{python_sitearch}/rencode
-%{python_sitearch}/rencode-%{version}*-info
+%{python_sitearch}/rencode-%{version}.dist-info
 
 %changelog
diff --git a/v1.0.6.tar.gz b/v1.0.6.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index cab213a..0000000
--- a/v1.0.6.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0ed61111f053ea37511da86ca7aed2a3cfda6bdaa1f54a237c4b86eea52f0733
-size 25455
diff --git a/v1.0.8.tar.gz b/v1.0.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a3743e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.0.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:480aab74948a7f339b749b5c39bdb4caf15429f4b49a998c770d5f371098d351
+size 26072