diff --git a/Alien-Build-2.37.tar.gz b/Alien-Build-2.37.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index b1993c2..0000000
--- a/Alien-Build-2.37.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:3000bcbe98482643f76bbcffce42fd48f24c63a6457f8aa2c1695f481ac9ed51
-size 330915
diff --git a/Alien-Build-2.38.tar.gz b/Alien-Build-2.38.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba8cb8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Alien-Build-2.38.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:6bbd4116d1a08f95df669fcba16acd6a7e94329843abc8cb7c4b038d1778bded
+size 331770
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Build.changes b/perl-Alien-Build.changes
index 7f9e74a..5f9f1d5 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Build.changes
+++ b/perl-Alien-Build.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 12 03:06:26 UTC 2021 - Tina Müller <timueller+perl@suse.de>
+
+- updated to 2.38
+   see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Alien-Build/Changes
+
+  2.38      2021-01-11 14:35:54 -0700
+    - Fixed a bug the can cause an array dereference error in pkg-config command line
+      plugin on MSYS2 / MinGW environment (gh#243)
+    - Changed the auto-generated module name for Test::Alien, in a way that works
+      around a probable bug / issue with ExtUtils::CBuilder (gh#243)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov  3 03:07:10 UTC 2020 - Tina Müller <timueller+perl@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Build.spec b/perl-Alien-Build.spec
index e4e8948..f06bd62 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Build.spec
+++ b/perl-Alien-Build.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package perl-Alien-Build
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -16,17 +16,15 @@
 #
 
 
-Name:           perl-Alien-Build
-Version:        2.37
-Release:        0
 %define cpan_name Alien-Build
+Name:           perl-Alien-Build
+Version:        2.38
+Release:        0
 Summary:        Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
 License:        Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/%{cpan_name}
 Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/%{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        cpanspec.yml
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
 BuildRequires:  perl(Capture::Tiny) >= 0.17
@@ -67,12 +65,12 @@ for CPAN. It is mainly designed to be used at install time of a CPAN
 client, and work closely with Alien::Base which is used at runtime.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n %{cpan_name}-%{version}
+%autosetup  -n %{cpan_name}-%{version}
 find . -type f ! -path "*/t/*" ! -name "*.pl" ! -path "*/bin/*" ! -path "*/script/*" ! -name "configure" -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
 
 %build
 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="%{optflags}"
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+%make_build
 
 %check
 make test
@@ -83,7 +81,6 @@ make test
 %perl_gen_filelist
 
 %files -f %{name}.files
-%defattr(-,root,root,755)
 %doc author.yml Changes Changes.Alien-Base Changes.Alien-Base-Wrapper Changes.Alien-Build-Decode-Mojo Changes.Test-Alien example README SUPPORT
 %license LICENSE