diff --git a/file.spec b/file.spec
index 76432e6..e909609 100644
--- a/file.spec
+++ b/file.spec
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 Summary: Utility for determining file types
 Name: file
-Version: 5.39
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 5.40
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Source0: http://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-%{version}.tar.gz
 
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ Patch0: file-localmagic.patch
 Patch1: file-4.17-rpm-name.patch
 Patch2: file-5.04-volume_key.patch
 
-# Fix close_on_exec multithreaded decompression issue (#1906751)
-Patch3: file-5.39-CLOEXEC.patch
-
 URL: https://www.darwinsys.com/file/
 Requires: file-libs%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel
@@ -207,6 +204,9 @@ cd %{py3dir}
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 31 2021 Vincent Mihalkovic <vmihalko@redhat.com> - 5.40-1
+- update to new version 5.40
+
 * Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 5.39-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 018777c..c74a817 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (file-5.39.tar.gz) = 9cf1a7b769c56eb6f5b25c66ce85fa1300128396e445b2e53dbbd8951e5da973a7a07c4ef9f7ebd1fe945d47bdaf2cd9ef09bd2be6c217a0bcb907d9449835e6
+SHA512 (file-5.40.tar.gz) = 3b70df75fa4c9050d55b1ffdc28e5f3c8b8ef7d4efd1a06bf53f113b676d81114a85aae56e0897d32b53716662d64ad18ab251ca8c92c6405c69eb758bb99afb