diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2003068..fd4aa58 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@
 /libabigail-1.6.tar.gz
 /libabigail-1.7.tar.gz
 /libabigail-1.8.tar.gz
+/libabigail-1.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/libabigail.spec b/libabigail.spec
index 8b01031..2690fe8 100644
--- a/libabigail.spec
+++ b/libabigail.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,21 @@
-%global tarball_revision 0
+%global tarball_revision 1
 %global tarball_name %{name}-%{version}
 
 Name: libabigail
-Version: 1.8
+Version: 1.8.1
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Set of ABI analysis tools
 
 License: LGPLv3+
 URL: https://sourceware.org/libabigail/
 Source0: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/%{tarball_name}.tar.gz
+# The tarball is built from the content of the git repository by doing:
+# git clone git://sourceware.org/git/libabigail.git --branch libabigail-1.8
+# cd libabigail
+# git checkout lbiabigail-1.8.1
+# autoreconf -i
+# configure
+# make dist
 
 BuildRequires: gcc-c++
 BuildRequires: libtool
@@ -69,6 +76,7 @@ BuildRequires: python3-rpm
 BuildRequires: python3-pyxdg
 #For x-rpm mimetype definition!
 BuildRequires: mailcap
+BuildRequires: make
 Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: curl
 Requires: koji
@@ -156,6 +164,29 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 27 2021 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> - 1.8.1-1
+- Update to upstream fixes up to libabigail-1.8.1
+  This encompasses this fixes, compared to the last 1.8 release:
+      ir: Add better comments to types_have_similar_structure
+      mainpage: Update web page for 1.8 release
+      Bug 26992 - Try harder to resolve declaration-only classes
+      Bug 27204 -  potential loss of some aliased ELF function symbols
+      Ignore duplicated functions and those not associated with ELF symbols
+      Bug 27236 - Pointer comparison wrongly fails because of typedef change
+      Bug 27233 - fedabipkgdiff fails on package gnupg2 from Fedora 33
+      Bug 27232 - fedabipkgdiff fails on gawk from Fedora 33
+      dwarf-reader: Support fast DW_FORM_line_strp string comparison
+      gen-changelog.py: Update call to subprocess.Popen & cleanup
+      Bug 27255 - fedabipkgdiff fails on nfs-utils on Fedora 33
+      abidiff: support --dump-diff-tree with --leaf-changes-only
+      ir: Arrays are indirect types for type structure similarity purposes
+      Add qualifier / typedef / array / pointer test
+      abg-ir: Optimize calls to std::string::find() for a single char.
+      abipkgdiff: Address operator precedence warning
+
+* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
+
 * Tue Dec  1 2020 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 1.8-1
 - Update to upstream 1.8
 - Add 'make check-self-compare' to the regression tests run.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 7cca5f7..f444193 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libabigail-1.8.tar.gz) = 5000aca7fd506d7ecc7e25710ff18f8af13946328df8b403ce9277c7cd982c4dc9053b814db81038cdec312abe685ea72055a2bfd91830f939357435ab2e3d92
+SHA512 (libabigail-1.8.1.tar.gz) = 9039f614bc14680ae30e26e2f7af296aa7ebcec1c3bb7f27c414e21e338b7081ff46602e65b5201528869c0222f203553666e65a0ab5229e54556ac59d2030ef