diff --git a/coccinelle-1.0.8.tar.gz b/coccinelle-1.0.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..512d7ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/coccinelle-1.0.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:9f994bf98bc88c333ac7a54a03d4fa1826122eec7016a1f22c6b2ef2a6a4347f
+size 2670961
diff --git a/coccinelle.changes b/coccinelle.changes
index 2b5ade4..7da69ff 100644
--- a/coccinelle.changes
+++ b/coccinelle.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 24 13:10:02 UTC 2019 - olaf@aepfle.de
+
+- Update to new upstream release 1.0.8
+  See included changes.txt for details
+- Remove usage of camlp4
+- Remove pkg-config. It is not required, but pulled in anyway
+  by other packages
+- Disable parallel build due to internal copy of stdcompat
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 22 14:04:45 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/coccinelle.spec b/coccinelle.spec
index a7a2138..fc3cd1a 100644
--- a/coccinelle.spec
+++ b/coccinelle.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           coccinelle
-Version:        1.0.7
+Version:        1.0.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Semantic patch utility
 License:        GPL-2.0-only
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ BuildRequires:  ocaml-ocamlbuild
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-ocamldoc >= 3.11
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-parmap-devel
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-pcre-devel
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
-BuildRequires:  ocamlfind(camlp4)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(python)
 Requires:       python-base
 
@@ -64,7 +62,7 @@ rm -fv tools/spgen/source/spgen{,.opt}
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
 %configure
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+make #{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 # "because it is simply not possible to strip ocaml binaries that are built