diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index db2c392..1df7dc0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -84,3 +84,4 @@
 /ansible-2.8.3.tar.gz
 /ansible-2.8.4.tar.gz
 /ansible-2.8.5.tar.gz
+/ansible-2.9.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/ansible.spec b/ansible.spec
index 00b41c3..807ec1c 100644
--- a/ansible.spec
+++ b/ansible.spec
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+#
+# NOTE: This spec is particular to the epel7 branch. 
+# Please modify it alone and do not merge master or 
+# any other branches into it. 
+#
 # RHEL 6 didn't have a __python2 macro.
 # Amazon Linux 2015.9 is based on RHEL6, with /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.6, while
 # /usr/bin/python -> python2.7.  Explicitly use python2.6.
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@
 
 Name: ansible
 Summary: SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
-Version: 2.8.5
+Version: 2.9.0
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 License: GPLv3+
@@ -41,11 +46,6 @@ Source0: https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 # upstream as they don't know what their customers are running.
 Patch100: ansible-newer-jinja.patch
 
-# Python 3.8 compatibility in docs
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1712531
-# rebased from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/56806
-Patch101: 56806.patch
-
 Url: http://ansible.com
 BuildArch: noarch
 
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ BuildRequires: python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster
 %if 0%{?rhel} == 7
 BuildRequires: pytest
 BuildRequires: python2-sphinx-theme-alabaster
+BuildRequires: python-straight-plugin
 %else
 BuildRequires: python-pytest
 BuildRequires: python-pytest-xdist
@@ -267,8 +268,6 @@ This package installs extensive documentation for ansible
 %patch100 -p1
 %endif
 
-%patch101 -p1
-
 %if 0%{?with_python3}
 rm -rf %{py3dir}
 cp -a . %{py3dir}
@@ -300,8 +299,9 @@ popd
 
 %if ! %with_docs && ( 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 7)
  # Generate the rst docs from the source if they weren't generated earlier as
- # part of the html docs build
- make -Cdocs/docsite config cli keywords modules plugins testing
+ # part of the html docs build. 
+ # This is broken right now because it needs python3 and python3-straight-plugin
+ #make -Cdocs/docsite config cli keywords modules plugins testing
 %endif
 
 %install
@@ -430,14 +430,14 @@ popd
 # python3 and 2
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/ansible/
 %{_datadir}/ansible/
-%doc README.rst PKG-INFO COPYING changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst
+%doc README.rst PKG-INFO COPYING changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/ansible*
 
 %if 0%{?with_python3}
 %if 0%{?with_python2}
 %files -n ansible-python3
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/ansible/
-%doc README.rst PKG-INFO COPYING changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst
+%doc README.rst PKG-INFO COPYING changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/ansible*
 %{_bindir}/ansible*-3*
 %endif
@@ -453,6 +453,9 @@ popd
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 08 2019 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> - 2.9.0-1
+- Update to 2.9.0.
+
 * Fri Sep 13 2019 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> - 2.8.5-1
 - Update to 2.8.5.
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9528a50..88bb11d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (ansible-2.8.5.tar.gz) = 6555b9a3d3d8298410e54f7116d92fc1978bef185a5136cfb809c1942b08b96c562af9e0d6d1a25eee5a4024d309b6713ce27836857b428a7c362e26efb53777
+SHA512 (ansible-2.9.0.tar.gz) = 47e0738bbf9918254d7b33ddc0a8f89a101995ccc3cb846be9ff10bdbc7687fb8a5390d8b976b3ce17fa1325ab63a592161b026d5d943a01f8a5803fca67312a