diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 533c8f3..4f16626 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -107,3 +107,4 @@ gsettings-desktop-schemas-0.0.1.git20100729.tar.bz2
 /gsettings-desktop-schemas-40.beta.tar.xz
 /gsettings-desktop-schemas-40.rc.tar.xz
 /gsettings-desktop-schemas-40.0.tar.xz
+/gsettings-desktop-schemas-41.alpha.tar.xz
diff --git a/gsettings-desktop-schemas.spec b/gsettings-desktop-schemas.spec
index 1a5371b..184eb8e 100644
--- a/gsettings-desktop-schemas.spec
+++ b/gsettings-desktop-schemas.spec
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 %global tarball_version %%(echo %{version} | tr '~' '.')
 
 Name:           gsettings-desktop-schemas
-Version:        40.0
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        41~alpha
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A collection of GSettings schemas
 
 License:        LGPLv2+
 # no homepage exists for this component
 URL:            https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas
-Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/40/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
+Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/41/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        org.gnome.desktop.interface.rhel.gschema.override
 
 BuildRequires:  gettext
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ glib-compile-schemas --dry-run --strict %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 18 2021 Florian Müllner <fmuellner@redhat.com> - 41~alpha-1
+- Update to 40.alpha
+
 * Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 40.0-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index f3878c2..ac44672 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gsettings-desktop-schemas-40.0.tar.xz) = 6b7f9b3095706b287254bd21d54311d6048e87340462e75848f05f7d7ded09da766cec7159fb6d889405ecfb4fdfe2243197989afeb21678fe4048783ae16424
+SHA512 (gsettings-desktop-schemas-41.alpha.tar.xz) = 6cca83d2dd4615d6724b8dc44f480ef4de6b2ad8336e1d4bc5bfa47c7addb37f86631bb54b48b25df01a7d6a69dffe30ac38b808447d15daeb3e1ab1987814f4