diff --git a/MozillaThunderbird.changes b/MozillaThunderbird.changes
index 612cc7b..493d191 100644
--- a/MozillaThunderbird.changes
+++ b/MozillaThunderbird.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun May 24 20:46:21 UTC 2020 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- Mozilla Thunderbird 68.8.1
+  * fixed: IMAP stability improvements (bmo#1586494)
+  * fixed: HTML tags in IRC topic changes were rendered
+    incorrectly (bmo#1607097)
+  * fixed: MailExtensions: Websockets could not be used
+    (bmo#1627649)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  5 07:49:33 UTC 2020 - Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org>
 
diff --git a/MozillaThunderbird.spec b/MozillaThunderbird.spec
index a5f719b..9041bdf 100644
--- a/MozillaThunderbird.spec
+++ b/MozillaThunderbird.spec
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 # major 69
 # mainver %major.99
 %define major           68
-%define mainver         %major.8.0
-%define orig_version    68.8.0
+%define mainver         %major.8.1
+%define orig_version    68.8.1
 %define orig_suffix     %{nil}
 %define update_channel  release
 %define source_prefix   thunderbird-%{mainver}
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index b6ca7ea..0000000
--- a/l10n-68.8.0.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 28524256
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36699dd
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diff --git a/tar_stamps b/tar_stamps
index a6a248d..b625817 100644
--- a/tar_stamps
+++ b/tar_stamps
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 PRODUCT="thunderbird"
 CHANNEL="esr68"
-VERSION="68.8.0"
+VERSION="68.8.1"
 VERSION_SUFFIX=""
-PREV_VERSION="68.7.0"
+PREV_VERSION="68.8.0"
 PREV_VERSION_SUFFIX=""
 #SKIP_LOCALES="" # Uncomment to skip l10n and compare-locales-generation
 RELEASE_REPO="https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr68"
-RELEASE_TAG="4c022a34cd5dd776671721c44db89f693f59132c"
-RELEASE_TIMESTAMP="20200504155042"
+RELEASE_TAG="face673d2586b0063f823b13ee10a2b50bb964dd"
+RELEASE_TIMESTAMP="20200521175255"
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