diff --git a/apache-libcloud-2.8.0.tar.gz b/apache-libcloud-2.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index a93802d..0000000
--- a/apache-libcloud-2.8.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:3387a10d2f4df8cf9edb3159e07bcd8087b5e06f85de94b661ffea61d827a5c4
-size 2027189
diff --git a/apache-libcloud-2.8.1.tar.gz b/apache-libcloud-2.8.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c80a98b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-libcloud-2.8.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:c76d6c28c724aed46067d540facc512438362d1c8d02a7e5202864f8ed756e20
+size 2076497
diff --git a/ec2_create_node.patch b/ec2_create_node.patch
index cce230f..37919ed 100644
--- a/ec2_create_node.patch
+++ b/ec2_create_node.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Index: apache-libcloud-2.8.0/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
+Index: apache-libcloud-2.8.1/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
 ===================================================================
---- apache-libcloud-2.8.0.orig/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
-+++ apache-libcloud-2.8.0/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
+--- apache-libcloud-2.8.1.orig/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
++++ apache-libcloud-2.8.1/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py
 @@ -1892,12 +1892,18 @@ class BaseEC2NodeDriver(NodeDriver):
                                                for system shutdown.
          :type       ex_terminate_on_shutdown: ``bool``
diff --git a/gce_image_projects.patch b/gce_image_projects.patch
index 6c8bf78..6e1ec82 100644
--- a/gce_image_projects.patch
+++ b/gce_image_projects.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Index: apache-libcloud-2.8.0/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
+Index: apache-libcloud-2.8.1/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
 ===================================================================
---- apache-libcloud-2.8.0.orig/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
-+++ apache-libcloud-2.8.0/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
+--- apache-libcloud-2.8.1.orig/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
++++ apache-libcloud-2.8.1/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py
 @@ -1803,20 +1803,35 @@ class GCENodeDriver(NodeDriver):
              "rhel-8",
          ],
diff --git a/python-apache-libcloud.changes b/python-apache-libcloud.changes
index e290ff8..5594890 100644
--- a/python-apache-libcloud.changes
+++ b/python-apache-libcloud.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Mar  5 18:45:41 UTC 2020 - Niels Abspoel <aboe76@gmail.com>
+
+- update to 2.8.1
+  for the changelog see:
+  https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-v2-8-1
+  
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb 21 19:48:04 UTC 2020 - Sean Marlow <sean.marlow@suse.com>
 
 - Add gce_image_projects.patch to update the current list of SUSE
   image projects in GCE.
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 20 18:19:46 UTC 2020 - James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
+
+- Stop building for python2
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 16 17:28:20 UTC 2020 - Marketa Calabkova <mcalabkova@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-apache-libcloud.spec b/python-apache-libcloud.spec
index 16d987a..0843b05 100644
--- a/python-apache-libcloud.spec
+++ b/python-apache-libcloud.spec
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@
 #
 
 
+# No longer build for python2
+%define skip_python2  1
+
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-apache-libcloud
-Version:        2.8.0
+Version:        2.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Abstraction over multiple cloud provider APIs
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -41,7 +44,9 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module xml}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-backports.ssl_match_hostname
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
+%if ! 0%{?skip_python2}
 BuildRequires:  python2
+%endif
 Requires:       python-lxml
 Requires:       python-requests
 Requires:       python-typing
@@ -78,8 +83,10 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.pem' -size 0 -delete
 
 %check
 # Skip ShellOutSSHClientTests tests which attempt to ssh to localhost
+%if ! 0%{?skip_python2}
 python2 -m pytest -k 'not ShellOutSSHClientTests and \
-   not ElasticContainerDriverTestCase'
+	not ElasticContainerDriverTestCase'
+%endif
 # Note these two extra py3 failures are undesirable and should be fixed
 python3 -m pytest -k \
   'not test_consume_stderr_chunk_contains_part_of_multi_byte_utf8_character and \