diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index beac2f3..24ebaf1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 /pelican-3.6.0.tar.gz
 /pelican-3.6.3.tar.gz
 /pelican-3.7.0.tar.gz
+/pelican-3.7.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-pelican.spec b/python-pelican.spec
index 0b4468a..888b9b1 100644
--- a/python-pelican.spec
+++ b/python-pelican.spec
@@ -5,18 +5,14 @@
 %global pypi_name pelican
 %{!?__python2:%global __python2 %{__python}}
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        3.7.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        3.7.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A tool to generate a static blog from reStructuredText or Markdown input files
 
 License:        AGPLv3
 URL:            http://getpelican.com
 Source0:        https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{pypi_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-# patch to address utf8 issue in changelog
-# https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/commit/01d536d7c9ddd6e1090d69b5f4445e37d4019d40.patch
-Patch0: pelican-3.7.0-fix-changelog.patch
-
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
@@ -185,6 +181,9 @@ mv %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 23 2017 Matthias Runge <mrunge@redhat.com> - 3.7.1-1
+- update to 3.7.1 (rhbz#1426053)
+
 * Wed Feb 08 2017 Matthias Runge <mrunge@redhat.com> - 3.7.0-2
 - remove python requirements to feedgenerator (rhbz#1379149)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index c4b1300..0a72312 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pelican-3.7.0.tar.gz) = e4b8a771737a8f6fab109b0f4544229f09141f38210b502f605ae449be7ba12bb43db6637592d2e9060255e923f092c6cfe8dc7bbeec1431d5b625f3a9b8222d
+SHA512 (pelican-3.7.1.tar.gz) = 9e04e6a2009cc134f74410d8c8349831467192e7524287e23cad0b68232f2b5dd04f5d98505222d71eb3441e466bccec1cafc7f6e3c6bfcb4c5e57e4ab0fadda