diff --git a/openscap-1.3.8.tar.gz b/openscap-1.3.8.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b25d27..0000000
--- a/openscap-1.3.8.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:67d2e8ad8309b596b342613cf07635439836f764c42c5226413af6c51ad3a77c
-size 14026613
diff --git a/openscap-1.3.9.tar.gz b/openscap-1.3.9.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be8a5f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openscap-1.3.9.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:033889da66178d5ce63d802c6a41cce8bcc08d09ae02e256f365f4daca8a1899
+size 14028562
diff --git a/openscap.changes b/openscap.changes
index 3584f53..15dce6e 100644
--- a/openscap.changes
+++ b/openscap.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 21 19:43:34 UTC 2023 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- update to 1.3.9:
+  * use PCRE2 library
+  * Fix offline mode (OVAL/sysctl)
+  * Fix leak of dpkg cache when dpkginfo_init is called multiple times
+  * Fix un-expanded variable in xccdf report output
+  * Fix issues when parsing profiles
+  * Fix minor problems and resource leaks
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 21 07:32:35 UTC 2023 - Robert Frohl <rfrohl@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/openscap.spec b/openscap.spec
index 279839a..a65a4d6 100644
--- a/openscap.spec
+++ b/openscap.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   %define _fillupdir %{_localstatedir}/adm/fillup-templates
 %endif
 Name:           openscap
-Version:        1.3.8
+Version:        1.3.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A Set of Libraries for Integration with SCAP
 License:        LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
 BuildRequires:  libyaml-devel
 BuildRequires:  lua
 BuildRequires:  openldap2-devel
-BuildRequires:  pcre-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl-XML-Parser
 BuildRequires:  perl-XML-XPath
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ BuildRequires:  xmlsec1-devel
 BuildRequires:  xmlsec1-openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-2.0)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libpcre2-8)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(systemd)
 # remove extra packages from version 1.2.9 and older
 Obsoletes:      openscap-engine-sce < %{version}
@@ -184,11 +184,16 @@ This package contains the Script Checking Engine Library (SCE) for OpenSCAP.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
-%if 0%{?with_bindings}
-%cmake -DENABLE_DOCS=TRUE -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="" -DENABLE_OSCAP_REMEDIATE_SERVICE=TRUE
-%else
-%cmake -DENABLE_DOCS=TRUE -DENABLE_PYTHON3=FALSE -DENABLE_PERL=FALSE -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="" -DENABLE_OSCAP_REMEDIATE_SERVICE=TRUE
+%cmake \
+	-DENABLE_DOCS=TRUE \
+	-DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="" \
+	-DENABLE_OSCAP_REMEDIATE_SERVICE=TRUE \
+	-DWITH_PCRE2=ON \
+%if !0%{?with_bindings}
+	-DENABLE_PYTHON3=FALSE \
+	-DENABLE_PERL=FALSE \
 %endif
+%{nil}
 %if 0%{?sle_version} > 150100 || 0%{?suse_version} == 1599
 %cmake_build
 %else