diff --git a/1.08.tar.gz b/1.08.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fb2ec1..0000000
--- a/1.08.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:4b9700496659e1aa44bb2292ecb6c7d0c5d7763b184fd7eac37df0f2ded4bae8
-size 26310
diff --git a/1.09.tar.gz b/1.09.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..255a22d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1.09.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:9c5194ae7186436b9257af83c0f4b38eb558b7bf1d3a87dc5244b7dda81ca9f5
+size 27144
diff --git a/python-sh.changes b/python-sh.changes
index a176c97..9b267d0 100644
--- a/python-sh.changes
+++ b/python-sh.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri May  2 12:37:53 UTC 2014 - multyrealm@gmail.com
+
+- update to 1.09
+  * Fixed encoding errors related to a system encoding "ascii". GH #123.
+  * Added exit_code attribute to SignalException and ErrorReturnCode exception
+    classes. GH #127.
+  * Making the default behavior of spawned processes to not be explicitly
+    killed when the parent python process ends. Also making the spawned process
+    ignore SIGHUP. GH #139.
+  * Made OSX sleep hack to apply to PY2 as well as PY3.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 20 08:51:22 UTC 2014 - mvyskocil@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/python-sh.spec b/python-sh.spec
index 19a3360..43ac070 100644
--- a/python-sh.spec
+++ b/python-sh.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# spec file for python-sh 
+# spec file for package python-sh
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2014 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 Name:           python-sh
-Version:        1.08
+Version:        1.09
 Release:        0
-License:        MIT
 Summary:        Python subprocess interface
-Url:            https://github.com/amoffat/sh
+License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
+Url:            https://github.com/amoffat/sh
 Source0:        https://github.com/amoffat/sh/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ sh is not a collection of system commands implemented in
 Python.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n sh-%{version}
+%setup -q -n amoffat-sh-80af572 
 
 %build
 python setup.py build
@@ -55,10 +56,8 @@ python setup.py install \
     --prefix=%{_prefix} \
     --root=%{buildroot}
 
-# mvyskocil: FIXME, fails on test_non_ascii_error and test_unicode_arg
-#            with UnicodeEncodeError/UnicodeDecodeError
-# % check
-# python test.py
+%check
+python test.py
 
 %files
 %defattr(0644,root,root)
@@ -68,4 +67,3 @@ python setup.py install \
 %{python_sitelib}/sh-%{version}-*.egg-info
 
 %changelog
-