diff --git a/checkpolicy-3.0.tar.gz b/checkpolicy-3.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index b0e4615..0000000
--- a/checkpolicy-3.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:c88c719a141dd5c1202d49c378c7f063349d630522d5e04dc6e0c53da81aa4f8
-size 69037
diff --git a/checkpolicy-3.1.tar.gz b/checkpolicy-3.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb2d30a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkpolicy-3.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:dfc7707070520c93b14fbbdfdbe081364d806bf28e3e79e10318c2594c77bbb2
+size 69072
diff --git a/checkpolicy.changes b/checkpolicy.changes
index 6bddcb5..592689a 100644
--- a/checkpolicy.changes
+++ b/checkpolicy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 14 08:31:15 UTC 2020 - Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.com>
+
+- Update to version 3.1
+  * checkpolicy treats invalid characters as an error - might break rare use
+    cases (intentionally)
+  * Drop extern_te_assert_t.patch, is upstream
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar  3 12:19:40 UTC 2020 - Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/checkpolicy.spec b/checkpolicy.spec
index 7a7753f..b242bd6 100644
--- a/checkpolicy.spec
+++ b/checkpolicy.spec
@@ -16,17 +16,16 @@
 #
 
 
-%define libsepol_ver 3.0
+%define libsepol_ver 3.1
 Name:           checkpolicy
-Version:        3.0
+Version:        3.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        SELinux policy compiler
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 Group:          Productivity/Security
 URL:            https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux
-Source0:        https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/20191204/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/20200710/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        checkpolicy-tests.tar.gz
-Patch0:         extern_te_assert_t.patch
 BuildRequires:  bison
 BuildRequires:  flex
 BuildRequires:  libselinux-devel
@@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ to use checkpolicy from Python.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 make clean
diff --git a/extern_te_assert_t.patch b/extern_te_assert_t.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7980fd1..0000000
--- a/extern_te_assert_t.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Index: checkpolicy-2.9/checkpolicy.h
-===================================================================
---- checkpolicy-2.9.orig/checkpolicy.h	2019-03-15 10:32:30.000000000 +0000
-+++ checkpolicy-2.9/checkpolicy.h	2020-01-15 14:23:04.742118559 +0000
-@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ typedef struct te_assert {
- 	struct te_assert *next;
- } te_assert_t;
- 
--te_assert_t *te_assertions;
-+extern te_assert_t *te_assertions;
- 
- extern unsigned int policyvers;
-