diff --git a/grpc.changes b/grpc.changes
index 18a8828..ad237c9 100644
--- a/grpc.changes
+++ b/grpc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 14 16:15:47 UTC 2024 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Also fixup hashbang of tools/profiling/ios_bin/parse_link_map.py,
+  which was exceptionally not using env python, but directly
+  /usr/bin/python.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb 13 10:18:50 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 1.61.1
+  * Add missing include directives so that the build with
+    newer absl works
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 31 19:51:15 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/grpc.spec b/grpc.spec
index 271ec04..7572e1b 100644
--- a/grpc.spec
+++ b/grpc.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 %define lverp 1_61
 %define src_install_dir /usr/src/%name
 Name:           grpc
-Version:        1.61.0
+Version:        1.61.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        HTTP/2-based Remote Procedure Call implementation
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ This subpackage contains source code of the gRPC reference implementation.
 %prep
 %autosetup -N
 %patch -P 1 -p1
+find "." -type f -exec grep -l '/usr/bin/python' {} + |
+	xargs -r perl -i -lpe \
+	's{#! ?/usr/bin/python\S*}{#!/usr/bin/python3}g;'
 find "." -type f -exec grep -l '/usr/bin/env ' {} + |
 	xargs -r perl -i -lpe \
 	's{#! ?/usr/bin/env python\S*}{#!/usr/bin/python3}g;
diff --git a/v1.61.0.tar.gz b/v1.61.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index df147cc..0000000
--- a/v1.61.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:aa1e25461879fa674584a9f5d5aec998845b1dfe5746c16cc16eeba5c1c83abe
-size 17401913
diff --git a/v1.61.1.tar.gz b/v1.61.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..082ae67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.61.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:6dadc0420ad2d4b8ac49f516830f72feae3764bf83decc8d7c3a871eca1a0843
+size 17407078