diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fb279e3..292a87d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /astroquery-0.3.6.tar.gz
 /astroquery-0.3.7.tar.gz
 /astroquery-0.3.8.tar.gz
+/astroquery-0.3.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/f11a0ff530a7954836262930f7b433ecf50624b7.patch b/f11a0ff530a7954836262930f7b433ecf50624b7.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b89bdd6..0000000
--- a/f11a0ff530a7954836262930f7b433ecf50624b7.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-From f11a0ff530a7954836262930f7b433ecf50624b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christian Dersch <lupinix.fedora@gmail.com>
-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 16:11:26 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] vo_conesearch: Renamed async to vo_async as async is reserved
- keyword stating with Python 3.7
-
----
- astroquery/vo_conesearch/conesearch.py             | 2 +-
- astroquery/vo_conesearch/{async.py => vo_async.py} | 0
- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
- rename astroquery/vo_conesearch/{async.py => vo_async.py} (100%)
-
-diff --git a/astroquery/vo_conesearch/conesearch.py b/astroquery/vo_conesearch/conesearch.py
-index 460826d3f..1ea03728f 100644
---- a/astroquery/vo_conesearch/conesearch.py
-+++ b/astroquery/vo_conesearch/conesearch.py
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
- 
- # LOCAL
- from . import vos_catalog
--from .async import AsyncBase
-+from .vo_async import AsyncBase
- from .core import ConeSearchClass, _validate_sr
- from .exceptions import ConeSearchError, VOSError
- 
-diff --git a/astroquery/vo_conesearch/async.py b/astroquery/vo_conesearch/vo_async.py
-similarity index 100%
-rename from astroquery/vo_conesearch/async.py
-rename to astroquery/vo_conesearch/vo_async.py
diff --git a/python-astroquery.spec b/python-astroquery.spec
index 5505815..ba3881e 100644
--- a/python-astroquery.spec
+++ b/python-astroquery.spec
@@ -2,18 +2,14 @@
 %global sum Python module to access astronomical online data resources
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
-Version:        0.3.8
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        0.3.9
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        %{sum}
 
 License:        BSD
 URL:            http://pypi.python.org/pypi/%{srcname}
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/a/%{srcname}/%{srcname}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-# Rename async to vo_async (internal API only) to be Python 3.7+ compatible
-# Filed upstream: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/1185
-Patch0:         https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/commit/f11a0ff530a7954836262930f7b433ecf50624b7.patch
-
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  python3-astropy
 BuildRequires:  python3-beautifulsoup4
@@ -61,6 +57,10 @@ chmod 755 %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/%{srcname}/alma/tests/data/downloadRequ
 %exclude %{python3_sitelib}/%{srcname}/cosmosim/tests/test_cosmosim.py
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 31 2019 Christian Dersch <lupinix@fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.9-1
+- new version
+- drop patch applied upstream
+
 * Tue Oct 16 2018 Christian Dersch <lupinix.fedora@gmail.com> - 0.3.8-3
 - remove python2 subpackage
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3f7f1c1..fdc7dd5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (astroquery-0.3.8.tar.gz) = 8636cd107339c9de9a319553568266dfac7f640cb8f1b486ed78db8619fe032fd3c0110bfff42b61102ae3abe0d61aafc0b2aff3a12f189da548ce59f1589902
+SHA512 (astroquery-0.3.9.tar.gz) = 0da57f687ac0aa7611cd97085771d79c99e9ac8c11f0828fcbc7390faf24e1e87d86812020e0ae8be1749f5f2ae9cb3733e5922d38a897a9e212247175c28e52