diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 29fccf5..219786f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
 /zstd-1.4.4.tar.gz
 /zstd-1.4.5.tar.gz
 /zstd-1.4.7.tar.gz
+/zstd-1.4.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/alignment.patch b/alignment.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 39f5137..0000000
--- a/alignment.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-From ae85676d44baee3d12168a5c929347b3836f2cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:27:53 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix alignment of scratchBuffer in HUF_compressWeights()
-
-The scratch buffer must be 4-byte aligned. This causes test failures in
-32-bit systems, where the stack isn't aligned.
-
-Fixes Issue #2428.
----
- lib/common/fse.h            | 5 +++--
- lib/compress/huf_compress.c | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/lib/common/fse.h b/lib/common/fse.h
-index 83a07847a..dd5fc44e8 100644
---- a/lib/common/fse.h
-+++ b/lib/common/fse.h
-@@ -335,9 +335,10 @@ size_t FSE_buildCTable_rle (FSE_CTable* ct, unsigned char symbolValue);
- 
- /* FSE_buildCTable_wksp() :
-  * Same as FSE_buildCTable(), but using an externally allocated scratch buffer (`workSpace`).
-- * `wkspSize` must be >= `FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE(maxSymbolValue, tableLog)`.
-+ * `wkspSize` must be >= `FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE_U32(maxSymbolValue, tableLog)` of `unsigned`.
-  */
--#define FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE(maxSymbolValue, tableLog) (sizeof(unsigned) * (maxSymbolValue + 2) + (1ull << tableLog))
-+#define FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE_U32(maxSymbolValue, tableLog) (maxSymbolValue + 2 + (1ull << (tableLog - 2)))
-+#define FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE(maxSymbolValue, tableLog) (sizeof(unsigned) * FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE_U32(maxSymbolValue, tableLog))
- size_t FSE_buildCTable_wksp(FSE_CTable* ct, const short* normalizedCounter, unsigned maxSymbolValue, unsigned tableLog, void* workSpace, size_t wkspSize);
- 
- #define FSE_BUILD_DTABLE_WKSP_SIZE(maxTableLog, maxSymbolValue) (sizeof(short) * (maxSymbolValue + 1) + (1ULL << maxTableLog) + 8)
-diff --git a/lib/compress/huf_compress.c b/lib/compress/huf_compress.c
-index abbcc3192..00c593d7e 100644
---- a/lib/compress/huf_compress.c
-+++ b/lib/compress/huf_compress.c
-@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static size_t HUF_compressWeights (void* dst, size_t dstSize, const void* weight
-     U32 tableLog = MAX_FSE_TABLELOG_FOR_HUFF_HEADER;
- 
-     FSE_CTable CTable[FSE_CTABLE_SIZE_U32(MAX_FSE_TABLELOG_FOR_HUFF_HEADER, HUF_TABLELOG_MAX)];
--    BYTE scratchBuffer[FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE(HUF_TABLELOG_MAX, MAX_FSE_TABLELOG_FOR_HUFF_HEADER)];
-+    U32 scratchBuffer[FSE_BUILD_CTABLE_WORKSPACE_SIZE_U32(HUF_TABLELOG_MAX, MAX_FSE_TABLELOG_FOR_HUFF_HEADER)];
- 
-     unsigned count[HUF_TABLELOG_MAX+1];
-     S16 norm[HUF_TABLELOG_MAX+1];
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 111ae64..5aa4a51 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (zstd-1.4.7.tar.gz) = 43b2292e6518123bebfe0623ec8d7f832850ad1f4fd5b845328665330dd104574a27debd5530c204bf44d0d36737b3e57e07097e5ac6e8bb3bae4e9eeb0f2e0c
+SHA512 (zstd-1.4.9.tar.gz) = 10d325c844be43f801c798158c6f1d1ab57401abf1e783e04f6b9e4ac0ba53cf487204fa3244370b1ade239d5f3a784bf1829e206c4ba61fdd9c2f4e9502b238
diff --git a/zstd.spec b/zstd.spec
index e4a6c2e..d7a1f59 100644
--- a/zstd.spec
+++ b/zstd.spec
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           zstd
-Version:        1.4.7
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.4.9
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Zstd compression library
 
 License:        BSD and GPLv2
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ URL:            https://github.com/facebook/zstd
 Source0:        https://github.com/facebook/zstd/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 Patch1:         pzstd.1.patch
-Patch2:         alignment.patch
 
 BuildRequires: make
 BuildRequires:  gcc gtest-devel
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ find -name .gitignore -delete
 %if %{with pzstd}
 %patch1 -p1
 %endif
-%patch2 -p1
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
@@ -123,6 +121,9 @@ install -D -m644 programs/%{name}.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/p%{name}.1
 %ldconfig_scriptlets -n lib%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Mar 05 2021 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> - 1.4.9-1
+- Latest upstream
+
 * Thu Jan 28 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.7-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild