diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6a9471b..a66b0be 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@
 /pygit2-1.5.0.tar.gz
 /pygit2-1.6.1.tar.gz
 /pygit2-1.7.1.tar.gz
+/pygit2-1.9.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-pygit2.spec b/python-pygit2.spec
index f01b6b3..9f1d7a3 100644
--- a/python-pygit2.spec
+++ b/python-pygit2.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %global pkgname pygit2
 
 Name:           python-%{pkgname}
-Version:        1.7.1
+Version:        1.9.0
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Python bindings for libgit2
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Source0:        https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{
 
 BuildRequires:  make
 BuildRequires:  gcc
-BuildRequires:  (libgit2-devel >= 1.3.0 with libgit2-devel < 2.0.0)
+BuildRequires:  (libgit2-devel >= 1.4.0 with libgit2-devel < 1.5.0)
 
 %description
 pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 library, which implements
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e2291fe..2c9f258 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pygit2-1.7.1.tar.gz) = d97a7f55e9db11acf9613ad2b7db2203a7564b38eb59d24cadcfe672a27c3188a744e7acadd072cb4a6a0c5fe39b687edd33236759674762ed32e051481a6478
+SHA512 (pygit2-1.9.0.tar.gz) = 8934f1099004a536b78973f74efc8854cbfb736369a0592c382fbc1325409105640235a2b3ce4602ad0dce863cb9ffd34b2359c9840d2abdadb55e2a43df18f9