diff --git a/python-rst.linker.changes b/python-rst.linker.changes
index ba969a0..7f653e5 100644
--- a/python-rst.linker.changes
+++ b/python-rst.linker.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri May  5 12:52:16 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 2.4.0:
+  * Supply the encoding, fixing EncodingWarnings.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 21 12:33:29 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-rst.linker.spec b/python-rst.linker.spec
index af3796f..08a926b 100644
--- a/python-rst.linker.spec
+++ b/python-rst.linker.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define _name   rst.linker
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-rst.linker
-Version:        2.3.1
+Version:        2.4.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Changelog link and timestamp adding Sphinx plugin
 License:        MIT
diff --git a/rst.linker-2.3.1.tar.gz b/rst.linker-2.3.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 9052e88..0000000
--- a/rst.linker-2.3.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b998df6a456327986b8059584e754d598d88ac8b2eddba9e1425f90d54e66133
-size 10436
diff --git a/rst.linker-2.4.0.tar.gz b/rst.linker-2.4.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c17dc17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rst.linker-2.4.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:b41018765f1f65e3e6dfae6ea23cd699e0a26d8ce34cd3bcfd6f779af2944f01
+size 11340