diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 14dd33f..0448e01 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /packaging-16.7.tar.gz
 /packaging-16.8.tar.gz
+/packaging-17.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-packaging.spec b/python-packaging.spec
index d998cda..1afecaa 100644
--- a/python-packaging.spec
+++ b/python-packaging.spec
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 %global python3_wheelname %python2_wheelname
 
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        16.8
-Release:        11%{?dist}
+Version:        17.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Core utilities for Python packages
 
 License:        BSD or ASL 2.0
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ rm -rf html/_static/fonts/
 %license LICENSE LICENSE.APACHE LICENSE.BSD
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 31 2018 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 17.1-1
+- Update to 17.1
+
 * Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 16.8-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5a8f473..bc39b9f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-53895cdca04ecff80b54128e475b5d3b  packaging-16.8.tar.gz
+SHA512 (packaging-17.1.tar.gz) = 52d2f482ae5cd0f8e7b3ac35c4b270ca736bc4f7ebaa569631d1dcb8ea024ee6f75127ca2aa3c95e686ebbd427de2ef4bc01bcd839591f7b4c1e26f9b8d9acb0