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diff --git a/nano.changes b/nano.changes
index 0335733..41119fd 100644
--- a/nano.changes
+++ b/nano.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul 13 07:43:31 UTC 2024 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- GNU nano 8.1:
+  * The idiom nano filename:linenumber is understood only when
+    the option --colonparsing (or 'set colonparsing') is used
+  * Modern bindings are not activated when nano's invocation name
+    starts with "e", as it jars with Debian's alternatives system
+  * New bindable function 'cycle' first centers the current row,
+    then moves it to the top of the viewport, then to the bottom
+  * It is bound by default to ^L.
+  * Option --listsyntaxes/-z lists the names of available syntaxes
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May  1 11:58:56 UTC 2024 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/nano.spec b/nano.spec
index b2be46b..b02709e 100644
--- a/nano.spec
+++ b/nano.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 %define _version 8
 Name:           nano
-Version:        8.0
+Version:        8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Pico editor clone with enhancements
 License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
diff --git a/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch b/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
index e9e37af..cbcf29a 100644
--- a/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
+++ b/obs-channel-and-patchinfo-syntax.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-diff -rub a/syntax/xml.nanorc b/syntax/xml.nanorc
---- a/syntax/xml.nanorc	2022-04-08 17:13:15.000000000 +0800
-+++ b/syntax/xml.nanorc	2022-07-25 16:59:05.041959714 +0800
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- ## Syntax highlighting for XML files.
+Index: nano-8.1/syntax/xml.nanorc
+===================================================================
+--- nano-8.1.orig/syntax/xml.nanorc
++++ nano-8.1/syntax/xml.nanorc
+@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
+ 
+ ## Original author:  Josef Schugt
  
 -syntax xml "\.([jrsx]html?|jnlp|mml|pom|rng|sgml?|svg|w[as]dl|wsdd|xjb|xml|xs(d|lt?)|xul)$"
 +syntax xml "(\.([jrsx]html?|jnlp|mml|pom|rng|sgml?|svg|w[as]dl|wsdd|xjb|xml|xs(d|lt?)|xul)$|_patchinfo|_channel)"