diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b8530de..860358c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ tornado-1.0.1.tar.gz
 /tornado-4.5.1.tar.gz
 /tornado-4.5.2.tar.gz
 /tornado-5.0.2.tar.gz
+/tornado-5.1.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/fix-erroneous-deprecation-warnings.patch b/fix-erroneous-deprecation-warnings.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6592feb..0000000
--- a/fix-erroneous-deprecation-warnings.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/tornado/test/runtests.py b/tornado/test/runtests.py
-index d5bd769..e4f938d 100644
---- a/tornado/test/runtests.py
-+++ b/tornado/test/runtests.py
-@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ def main():
-     # 2.7 and 3.2
-     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning,
-                             message="Please use assert.* instead")
-+    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=PendingDeprecationWarning,
-+                            message="Please use assert.* instead")
-     # Twisted 15.0.0 triggers some warnings on py3 with -bb.
-     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=BytesWarning,
-                             module=r"twisted\..*")
diff --git a/fix-syntax-warnings.patch b/fix-syntax-warnings.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e77b77d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-syntax-warnings.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+diff --git a/tornado/test/web_test.py b/tornado/test/web_test.py
+index 16938c4..b1ae474 100644
+--- a/tornado/test/web_test.py
++++ b/tornado/test/web_test.py
+@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ class AuthRedirectTest(WebTestCase):
+                               follow_redirects=False)
+         self.assertEqual(response.code, 302)
+         self.assertTrue(re.match(
+-            'http://example.com/login\?next=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A[0-9]+%2Fabsolute',
++            r'http://example.com/login\?next=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A[0-9]+%2Fabsolute',
+             response.headers['Location']), response.headers['Location'])
+ 
+ 
+diff --git a/tornado/util.py b/tornado/util.py
+index a42ebeb..0b93ff9 100644
+--- a/tornado/util.py
++++ b/tornado/util.py
+@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ _re_unescape_pattern = re.compile(r'\\(.)', re.DOTALL)
+ 
+ def re_unescape(s):
+     # type: (str) -> str
+-    """Unescape a string escaped by `re.escape`.
++    r"""Unescape a string escaped by `re.escape`.
+ 
+     May raise ``ValueError`` for regular expressions which could not
+     have been produced by `re.escape` (for example, strings containing
+diff --git a/tornado/web.py b/tornado/web.py
+index 6760b0b..4340b16 100644
+--- a/tornado/web.py
++++ b/tornado/web.py
+@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ class _ApplicationRouter(ReversibleRuleRouter):
+ 
+ 
+ class Application(ReversibleRouter):
+-    """A collection of request handlers that make up a web application.
++    r"""A collection of request handlers that make up a web application.
+ 
+     Instances of this class are callable and can be passed directly to
+     HTTPServer to serve the application::
diff --git a/python-tornado.spec b/python-tornado.spec
index b963dfd..84868db 100644
--- a/python-tornado.spec
+++ b/python-tornado.spec
@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@
 %global srcname tornado
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
-Version:        5.0.2
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Version:        5.1.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools
 
 License:        ASL 2.0
 URL:            http://www.tornadoweb.org
-Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/t/tornado/tornado-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        %{pypi_source}
 
-# If unittest2 instead of unittest is used while running the tests,
-# the deprecation warnings will make the test suite error out.
-# Fixed upstream: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/pull/2350/commits/1a9b9939376b80d9f053734f539b860e0dca1aff
-Patch0:         fix-erroneous-deprecation-warnings.patch
+# Python 3.8 introduces SyntaxWarnings on invalid escape sequences
+# Tornado has them, mostly in docstrings and the tests treat them as errors
+# Fixed upstream: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/6dceb64ed27c1d48af22142f2ebae946f0e85e95
+Patch0:         fix-syntax-warnings.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ Summary:        Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools
 %{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{srcname}}
 
 Requires:       python2-pycurl
-Requires:       python2-backports_abc
-Requires:       python2-singledispatch
-Requires:       python2-futures
 
 %description -n python2-%{srcname}
 Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web
@@ -88,8 +85,7 @@ handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is
 ideal for real-time web services.
 
 %prep 
-%setup -q -n %{srcname}-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1
+%autosetup -p1 -n %{srcname}-%{version}
 # remove shebang from files
 %{__sed} -i.orig -e '/^#!\//, 1d' *py tornado/*.py tornado/*/*.py
 
@@ -125,6 +121,10 @@ ideal for real-time web services.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 27 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 5.1.1-1
+- Update to 5.1.1
+- Fix SyntaxWarnings (turned into SyntaxErrors) on Python 3.8
+
 * Sat Feb 02 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 5.0.2-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a238e62..87b124c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (tornado-5.0.2.tar.gz) = fbd360df34fe29ed3e5f406992923e2af2815f93446fb9d9810f7575fe06300a2cb15c3f36bd93150284ba297772f94c94a4227acca2dc65c94cf7d100cb5974
+SHA512 (tornado-5.1.1.tar.gz) = f9ecedb20c055981f482c9a2a8bb30082dcc479674f75f6c8654afcf40f2ce5a45e82c7e2b5a6ce5d1c9da7896e865e78c7d29a64b6b1d28d6e74a718be62dc7