diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e378759..d989436 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.9.3.tar.gz
+/libxml2-2.9.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/libxml2-2.9.4-remove-pyverify_fd.patch b/libxml2-2.9.4-remove-pyverify_fd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d05d4cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libxml2-2.9.4-remove-pyverify_fd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Nur libxml2-2.9.4.orig/python/types.c libxml2-2.9.4/python/types.c
+--- libxml2-2.9.4.orig/python/types.c	2016-02-09 03:17:33.000000000 -0700
++++ libxml2-2.9.4/python/types.c	2016-12-21 12:34:06.755650986 -0700
+@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
+     const char *mode;
+ 
+     fd = PyObject_AsFileDescriptor(f);
+-    if (!_PyVerify_fd(fd))
+-        return(NULL);
+     /*
+      * Get the flags on the fd to understand how it was opened
+      */
diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index 0481fe2..010639a 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support
 Name: libxml2
-Version: 2.9.3
-Release: 5%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
+Version: 2.9.4
+Release: 1%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
 License: MIT
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Source: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ BuildRequires: xz-devel
 URL: http://xmlsoft.org/
 Patch0: libxml2-multilib.patch
 Patch1: libxml2-2.9.0-do-not-check-crc.patch
+# In python3.6 _PyVerify_fd is no more
+#  http://bugs.python.org/issue23524
+Patch2: libxml2-2.9.4-remove-pyverify_fd.patch
 
 %description
 This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
@@ -100,6 +103,7 @@ at parse time or later once the document has been modified.
 %patch0 -p1
 # workaround for #877567 - Very weird bug gzip decompression bug in "recent" libxml2 versions
 %patch1 -p1 -b .do-not-check-crc
+%patch2 -p1
 
 mkdir py3doc
 cp doc/*.py py3doc
@@ -211,6 +215,10 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 21 2016 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> - 2.9.4-1
+- Update to 2.9.4.
+- Apply very hacky patch that removes the no longer in python-3.6 PyVerify_fd symbol.
+
 * Mon Dec 12 2016 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 2.9.3-5
 - Rebuild for Python 3.6
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8ad103b..4166ed0 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-daece17e045f1c107610e137ab50c179  libxml2-2.9.3.tar.gz
+SHA512 (libxml2-2.9.4.tar.gz) = f5174ab1a3a0ec0037a47f47aa47def36674e02bfb42b57f609563f84c6247c585dbbb133c056953a5adb968d328f18cbc102eb0d00d48eb7c95478389e5daf9