diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index 5bb6597..4503b6f 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-URI-1.37.tar.gz
+URI-1.40.tar.gz
diff --git a/perl-URI.spec b/perl-URI.spec
index 380e6bd..29185ee 100644
--- a/perl-URI.spec
+++ b/perl-URI.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           perl-URI
-Version:        1.37
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        1.40
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A Perl module implementing URI parsing and manipulation
 
 Group:          Development/Libraries
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct  6 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1.40-1
+- update to new upstream release
+
 * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.37-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index bfe233a..10c87a8 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-b81b3610b78654e11c099f74a5247860  URI-1.37.tar.gz
+626cc85f1939a89981f82aae43497b53  URI-1.40.tar.gz