diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4b573ad..c3446c2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 /markdown2-*.zip
-/markdown2-2.3.7.tar.gz
+/markdown2-*.tar.gz
diff --git a/markdown2-2.3.7-setup_cfg.patch b/markdown2-2.3.7-setup_cfg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 33f5e77..0000000
--- a/markdown2-2.3.7-setup_cfg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-diff -up markdown2-2.3.7/setup.cfg.orig markdown2-2.3.7/setup.cfg
---- markdown2-2.3.7/setup.cfg.orig	2019-02-09 09:27:17.455200378 +0100
-+++ markdown2-2.3.7/setup.cfg	2019-02-09 09:28:22.163409129 +0100
-@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
- [aliases]
--build = sdist bdist_wheel
- 
- [wheel]
- universal = 1
diff --git a/python-markdown2.spec b/python-markdown2.spec
index c9b9915..fdc32f3 100644
--- a/python-markdown2.spec
+++ b/python-markdown2.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 %global srcname markdown2
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
-Version:        2.3.7
+Version:        2.3.8
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/trentm/python-%{srcname}/
 Source0:        https://pypi.io/packages/source/m/%{srcname}/%{srcname}-%{version}.tar.gz
-# remove alias for 'build'
-Patch0:         markdown2-2.3.7-setup_cfg.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 BuildRequires:  python2-pygments
@@ -125,6 +123,9 @@ popd
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jul  7 2019 Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny@gmx.de> - 2.3.8-1
+- Update to 2.3.8.
+
 * Sat Feb  9 2019 Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny@gmx.de> - 2.3.7-1
 - Update to 2.3.7.
 - Simplify spec file.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 1d5b286..37c213f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (markdown2-2.3.7.tar.gz) = 4426c4fc06cc4c8a44e5e7362fc44f16cba56b685916e02125e4b255ed7808be17ec5708031996128f208fb92c4f4874c2dc1cde6494d30232ffdbe9477c271f
+SHA512 (markdown2-2.3.8.tar.gz) = 76abbbb2fa5f6a4cc43f358812079a2561f45ba5c2aed1a1860256440f7c48ca5e766c00c2464b973ef0cbbff9db58bca4398dc15ef8b5d203a6565b226bd7cd