diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d5b955a..30d3e6b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /XlsxWriter-1.1.6.tar.gz
 /XlsxWriter-1.1.7.tar.gz
 /XlsxWriter-1.1.8.tar.gz
+/XlsxWriter-1.1.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-xlsxwriter.spec b/python-xlsxwriter.spec
index fba0061..e1b485f 100644
--- a/python-xlsxwriter.spec
+++ b/python-xlsxwriter.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 %global src_name XlsxWriter
 
 Name:		python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:	1.1.8
-Release:	3%{?dist}
+Version:	1.1.9
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Python module for writing files in the Excel 2007+ XLSX file format
 License:	BSD
 URL:		https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XlsxWriter
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ rm -rf %{src_name}.egg-info
 %{_bindir}/vba_extract.py
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 22 2019 Rajeesh K V <rajeeshknambiar@gmail.com> - 1.1.9-1
+- New version 1.1.9
+
 * Mon Aug 19 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 1.1.8-3
 - Rebuilt for Python 3.8
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index faf1984..3e3ad3e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (XlsxWriter-1.1.8.tar.gz) = 6e8d564e2af7c37911298c85ff63fbc1ee3b354283ca049425f428af1f46e3ac069d9d0566c01a56c0a2a1f12451e3510781b8c1ff14f3b95a2f69ccfc02ce24
+SHA512 (XlsxWriter-1.1.9.tar.gz) = aadc41517417302ac644e31e1a3d6b4fa86aafa4da9aefc15cfc27d9206a54937274aa7f7d169fe5ab3a513e043db71861f1568fee0a38e4092060b24f24562b