diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b111eec..0871065 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -51,3 +51,4 @@
 /rpkg-1.53.tar.gz
 /rpkg-1.54.tar.gz
 /rpkg-1.55.tar.gz
+/rpkg-1.56.tar.gz
diff --git a/rpkg.spec b/rpkg.spec
index b41274f..e10c623 100644
--- a/rpkg.spec
+++ b/rpkg.spec
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 %{!?__python2: %global __python2 %{__python}}
 
 Name:           rpkg
-Version:        1.55
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.56
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 
 Summary:        Python library for interacting with rpm+git
 License:        GPLv2+ and LGPLv2
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ URL:            https://pagure.io/rpkg
 Source0:        https://pagure.io/releases/rpkg/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
+
 # Fix for bug 1579367
 # Due to https://pagure.io/koji/issue/912, python[23]-koji package does not
 # have egginfo.
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 # remove rpm-py-installer for now.
 Patch0:         remove-koji-and-rpm-py-installer-from-requires.patch
 
-
 %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} > 7
 # Enable python3 build by default
 %global with_python3 1
@@ -246,6 +246,31 @@ nosetests tests
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Aug 21 2018 Chenxiong Qi <cqi@redhat.com> - 1.56-1
+- Validate greenwave policy early in Commands.build (cqi)
+- Refine error message for failure gating.yaml validation (cqi)
+- explain mbs-manager exception handling (nils)
+- test for missing mbs-manager with errno set (nils)
+- catch errno == ENOENT if mbs-manager is missing (nils)
+- add missing method docstring (nils)
+- Show full error from MBS (lsedlar)
+- Fix tests for greenwave policy validation (cqi)
+- Add testenv for building docs (cqi)
+- New option --buildrootdir - rhbz#1583822 (cqi)
+- Add --shell option to mockbuild - rhbz#1438685 (cqi)
+- Validate gating.yaml file for Greenwave gating (gnaponie)
+- Update README (cqi)
+- Reduce the number of repo creation for tests (cqi)
+- Fix flake8 error (cqi)
+- Drop rpm-py-installer from requires - #357 (cqi)
+- Allow _run_command to capture and return output to stdout or stderr (cqi)
+- Claim Python 3.7 in README and package classifiers (cqi)
+- Fix a bad test teardown (otaylor)
+- Refactor build command (cqi)
+- Remove rpmfluff package (cqi)
+- Set PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY directly for installing pycurl (cqi)
+- Add py37 testenv (cqi)
+
 * Thu Jul 26 2018 Chenxiong Qi <cqi@redhat.com> - 1.55-2
 - Remove dependency python-rpmfluff
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index ce08724..49b5074 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (rpkg-1.55.tar.gz) = 52d25c75d0bf6443a61307210f89cfdfa8b64f9a1c32208dec04f52bf73a2adc4101ace703531276baf0cd043f8af10acf2719fe00ef2e89dfb26c086a99dda4
+SHA512 (rpkg-1.56.tar.gz) = 275c4b90fb351e4965d26be8a3017bc5fffe5ab3e3113e36ad80aa8dd96bcb118b5c9643ed9e4aa5b1dbf48c1bbefdec25d3bbab78f88a4c2b1cbb8c83fef1bd