diff --git a/python-web.py.changes b/python-web.py.changes
index bc57880..9ee474b 100644
--- a/python-web.py.changes
+++ b/python-web.py.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Aug  9 09:37:14 UTC 2020 - Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
+
+- version update to 0.61:
+  * Add python_requires=">=3.5" in setup.py #662
+  * Fix incorrect content in MANIFEST.in file.
+  * Python-2 support has been completely dropped. Welcome to Python 3.
+  * Fixed: session store DiskStore doesn't return correctly if session
+  * directory doesn't exist. #652
+  * Fixed: incorrect str/bytes type of session data. #644 #645
+  * Fixed: db.query("insert... returning") fails to commit. #648 #649
+- skip builds for Python 2
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug  6 05:53:01 UTC 2020 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-web.py.spec b/python-web.py.spec
index c80461e..f0b524c 100644
--- a/python-web.py.spec
+++ b/python-web.py.spec
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+%define skip_python2 1
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-web.py
-Version:        0.51
+Version:        0.61
 Release:        0
 Summary:        web.py: makes web apps
 License:        SUSE-Public-Domain AND BSD-3-Clause
@@ -46,7 +47,6 @@ Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen.
 
 %install
 %python_install
-%python_expand rm -r %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/tests/
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %check
diff --git a/web.py-0.51.tar.gz b/web.py-0.51.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index daba42d..0000000
--- a/web.py-0.51.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b50343941360984d37270186453bb897d13630028a739394fedf38f9cde2fd07
-size 80662
diff --git a/web.py-0.61.tar.gz b/web.py-0.61.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ded7f7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web.py-0.61.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:c7a9081aeb086cd3e703c7553a47ee75188d1d325f25eec7654d9bb00b5eccbb
+size 623070