diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c0c69e4..a7cadec 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -66,3 +66,4 @@ mercurial-1.6.2.tar.gz
 /mercurial-5.1.2.tar.gz
 /mercurial-5.2.tar.gz
 /mercurial-5.4.tar.gz
+/mercurial-5.6.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/hgdemandimport_ast.patch b/hgdemandimport_ast.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba0cb5e..0000000
--- a/hgdemandimport_ast.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -U3 -r mercurial-5.4-orig/hgdemandimport/__init__.py mercurial-5.4/hgdemandimport/__init__.py
---- mercurial-5.4-orig/hgdemandimport/__init__.py	2020-05-01 18:17:29.000000000 +0200
-+++ mercurial-5.4/hgdemandimport/__init__.py	2020-09-01 18:04:40.540165952 +0200
-@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
-     '__builtin__',
-     'builtins',
-     'urwid.command_map',  # for pudb
-+    '_ast', # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871992
- }
- 
- _pypy = '__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names
diff --git a/mercurial.spec b/mercurial.spec
index e772a58..696fd6e 100644
--- a/mercurial.spec
+++ b/mercurial.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Mercurial -- a distributed SCM
 Name: mercurial
-Version: 5.4
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 5.6.1
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 # Release: 1.rc1%%{?dist}
 
@@ -9,12 +9,10 @@ Release: 5%{?dist}
 %define upstreamversion %{version}
 
 License: GPLv2+
-URL: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
-#Source0: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/%%{name}-%%{version}.tar.gz
-Source0: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/%{name}-%{upstreamversion}.tar.gz
+URL: https://mercurial-scm.org/
+Source0: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/%{name}-%{upstreamversion}.tar.gz
 Source1: mercurial-site-start.el
 Patch2: 0001-setup-hg3.patch
-Patch3: hgdemandimport_ast.patch
 BuildRequires: python2-devel python3-devel bash-completion
 BuildRequires: emacs-nox emacs-el pkgconfig gettext python3-docutils
 BuildRequires: gcc
@@ -134,8 +132,6 @@ Locales for mercurial.
 # sed -ri 's|python\b|python2|' %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/Makefile %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/doc/Makefile
 %patch2 -p1 -b .create_hg3
 
-%patch3 -p1
-
 %build
 # copy hg to hg2/hg3 to be able to create /usr/bin/hg(2|3) script
 cp -a hg hg2
@@ -335,6 +331,13 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Dec  3 21:24:26 CET 2020 Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com> - 5.6.1-2
+- Drop hgdemandimport_ast.patch - it has been fixed both in Mercurial 5.5.2 and
+  Python 3.9.0rc2
+
+* Thu Dec  3 20:39:41 CET 2020 Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com> - 5.6.1-1
+- mercurial 5.6.1
+
 * Mon Nov 30 2020 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 5.4-5
 - Install Python 3 based mercurial by default
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0949060..85abc89 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mercurial-5.4.tar.gz) = 5f92d653ab74da4696ba7f1402e6cb219c0c514a5eeecb9d7282ab95aef2c6f16d5c8e3d0149525f3dc694a133c713b671ba92327e1b0dc3ad8701d522986d8d
+SHA512 (mercurial-5.6.1.tar.gz) = d84d7d9ae4c738e3cb62b26c4dc7f3943abc1b1a55ccc46a4e3435896f715efb30d4d6ff4df6d02a8bef7bd6ead2d21a44342fb8a2101e8fe04211d21efc13b1