diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 581e6ce..2d7c1eb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /libvma-9.5.3.tar.gz
 /libvma-9.6.4.tar.gz
 /libvma-9.8.1.tar.gz
+/libvma-9.8.40.tar.gz
diff --git a/0001-Fix-compilation-issue-for-gcc-13.0.1.patch b/0001-Fix-compilation-issue-for-gcc-13.0.1.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ee31013..0000000
--- a/0001-Fix-compilation-issue-for-gcc-13.0.1.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-From 87c8ac5b9d4a2cead9be46a993c734a33490bb95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Igor Ivanov <igori@nvidia.com>
-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:05:47 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] issue: 3373882 Fix compilation issue for gcc 13.0.1
-
-Signed-off-by: Igor Ivanov <igori@nvidia.com>
----
- config/m4/compiler.m4 | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/config/m4/compiler.m4 b/config/m4/compiler.m4
-index 328d1bae..ec6340bd 100644
---- a/config/m4/compiler.m4
-+++ b/config/m4/compiler.m4
-@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ case $CC in
-                 -Wno-free-nonheap-object "
-         CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wshadow -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wundef \
-                 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wsequence-point -pipe -Winit-self -Wmissing-include-dirs \
--                -Wno-free-nonheap-object "
-+                -Wno-free-nonheap-object -Wno-overloaded-virtual "
-         ;;
-     icc*|icpc*)
-         AC_MSG_RESULT([icc])
--- 
-2.25.1
-
diff --git a/libvma.spec b/libvma.spec
index a318a55..698e9e1 100644
--- a/libvma.spec
+++ b/libvma.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 %{!?configure_options: %global configure_options %{nil}}
 
 Name: libvma
-Version: 9.8.1
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 9.8.40
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A library for boosting TCP and UDP traffic (over RDMA hardware)
 
 License: GPLv2 or BSD
 Url: https://github.com/Mellanox/libvma
 Source0: https://github.com/Mellanox/libvma/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0: 0001-Fix-compilation-issue-for-gcc-13.0.1.patch
 
 # libvma currently supports only the following architectures
 ExclusiveArch: x86_64 ppc64le ppc64 aarch64
@@ -100,6 +99,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/vma
 %{_mandir}/man8/vma_stats.*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct 27 2023 Igor Ivanov <igori@nvidia.com> 9.8.40-1
+- Bump version to 9.8.40
+
 * Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 9.8.1-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 08476be..0e442fb 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libvma-9.8.1.tar.gz) = 65f3fe4a4fdbd0e2288250a5dce77faa81486a1a2a50365643b563e87f94a273ffec4ccb96d8fe013f69372ce69d00c7fe4aad1717b06bd83018a5d16f9c2b29
+SHA512 (libvma-9.8.40.tar.gz) = 2ea7a6abf646354c2f56472c5d7ca325097af87e2fa92f2d9a1c6fc310e7cb1e3eb923329fe70521a115d47e3b907f22965d8dad89518b3f82db3a1a885e47ce