diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 15396dd..1370350 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ pyserial-2.4.tar.gz
 /pyserial-2.5.tar.gz
 /pyserial-2.6.tar.gz
 /pyserial-2.7.tar.gz
+/pyserial-3.1.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/pyserial.spec b/pyserial.spec
index 5a3e6f7..2b34e09 100644
--- a/pyserial.spec
+++ b/pyserial.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Python serial port access library
 Name: pyserial
-Version: 2.7
-Release: 6%{?dist}
+Version: 3.1.1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Source0: http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 License: Python
 Group: Development/Libraries
@@ -56,19 +56,22 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc LICENSE.txt CHANGES.txt README.txt examples
+%doc LICENSE.txt CHANGES.rst README.rst examples
 %{python_sitelib}/*
 %{_bindir}/miniterm.py
 %{_bindir}/miniterm-2.py
 %{_bindir}/miniterm-%{python2_version}.py
 
 %files -n python3-pyserial
-%doc LICENSE.txt CHANGES.txt README.txt examples
+%doc LICENSE.txt CHANGES.rst README.rst examples
 %{python3_sitelib}/*
 %{_bindir}/miniterm-3.py
 %{_bindir}/miniterm-%{python3_version}.py
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 1 2016 Paul Komkoff <i@stingr.net> 3.1.1-1
+- new upstream version
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7-6
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2cfe460..9f32931 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-794506184df83ef2290de0d18803dd11  pyserial-2.7.tar.gz
+911087753ef5d39863a989c87840c51a  pyserial-3.1.1.tar.gz