diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d37a791..b7eb13b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 /grass-7.6.0.tar.gz
 /grass-7.8.0.tar.gz
 /grass-7.8.0-buildroot.patch
+/grass-7.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/grass.spec b/grass.spec
index d5a23dc..8e38674 100644
--- a/grass.spec
+++ b/grass.spec
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 %global macrosdir %(d=%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d; [ -d $d ] || d=%{_sysconfdir}/rpm; echo $d)
 
 Name:		grass
-Version:	7.8.0
-Release:	3%{?dist}
+Version:	7.8.1
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	GRASS GIS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
 
 %if 0%{?rhel}
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ URL:		https://grass.osgeo.org
 Source0:	https://grass.osgeo.org/%{name}%{shortver}/source/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source2:	%{name}-config.h
 
-Patch1: grass-7.8.0-buildroot.patch
+Patch1:		grass-7.8.0-buildroot.patch
 
 BuildRequires:	bison
 BuildRequires:	blas-devel
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ BuildRequires:	mysql-devel
 BuildRequires:	netcdf-devel
 %endif
 BuildRequires:	python3
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 6
+# EPEL7
+BuildRequires:	python36-numpy
+%else
 BuildRequires:	python3-numpy
+%endif
 %if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} <= 7
 BuildRequires:	postgresql-devel
 %else
@@ -68,11 +73,13 @@ BuildRequires:	proj-nad
 # argparse is included in python2.7+ but not python2.6
 BuildRequires:  python-argparse
 %endif
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 6
+# EPEL7
+BuildRequires:	python36-dateutil
+%else
 BuildRequires:	python3-dateutil
+%endif
 BuildRequires:	python3-devel
-Requires:	python3-matplotlib
-##?
-#Requires:  python3-matplotlib-wx
 %if (0%{?rhel} > 6 || 0%{?fedora})
 %if 0%{?rhel} > 6
 # EPEL7
@@ -90,9 +97,11 @@ BuildRequires:	sqlite-devel
 BuildRequires:	subversion
 BuildRequires:	unixODBC-devel
 BuildRequires:	zlib-devel
+BuildRequires:	bzip2-devel
 BuildRequires:	libzstd-devel
-Requires:	libzstd
 
+Requires:	bzip2-libs
+Requires:	libzstd
 Requires:	geos
 %if (0%{?fedora} >= 30)
 Requires:	proj-datumgrid
@@ -102,14 +111,30 @@ Requires:	proj-epsg
 Requires:	proj-nad
 %endif
 Requires:	python3
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 6
+# EPEL7
+Requires:	python36-numpy
+%else
 Requires:	python3-numpy
+%endif
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 6
+# EPEL7
+#Requires:  python3-matplotlib-wx
+%else
+Requires:	python3-matplotlib
+%endif
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 6
+# EPEL7
+Requires:	python36-dateutil
+%else
+Requires:	python3-dateutil
+%endif
 %if 0%{?rhel}
 Requires:	wxPython
 %else
 Requires:	python3-wxpython4
 %endif
 
-
 %if "%{_lib}" == "lib"
 %global cpuarch 32
 %else
@@ -195,6 +220,7 @@ CXXFLAGS="-std=c++98 ${CFLAGS}"
 	--with-postgres-includes=%{_includedir}/pgsql \
 	--with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
 	--with-freetype-includes=%{_includedir}/freetype2 \
+	--with-bzlib \
 	--with-zstd \
 	--with-proj-share=%{_datadir}/proj
 
@@ -328,6 +354,15 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/%{name}%{shortver}/include
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 24 2019 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.1
+- new upstream version GRASS GIS 7.8.1
+
+* Thu Oct 24 2019 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.0-5
+- fix EPEL7 support
+
+* Mon Sep 23 2019 Markus Metz <metz@mundialis.de> - 7.8.0-4
+- enable bzip2 compression
+
 * Fri Sep 20 2019 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.0-3
 - added missing proj-datumgrid and proj-datumgrid-world for >= F30
 - fix create symlink to unversioned name
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 154a591..65b5a23 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-SHA512 (grass-7.8.0.tar.gz) = 2add6a2f5af2931419a9103b46769c11a727ef4ce10f2977171b80bab038371fb5157294d045ccb57ce4d232a47c15b305912486fd3f7ab4a12eded224c06800
-SHA512 (grass-7.8.0-buildroot.patch) = da860d77ec844848c12fb3dedbf27beb244fc9058aea7eb57ba51ab491c8a9633a345facf42057682141315022c995af5462d9d540e6b860cf551dde86b11fa8
+SHA512 (grass-7.8.1.tar.gz) = 67093dc9648c8aaafb51344de4de2c0cc2913d0820021f1e7422710ba03dad51418b84a031c1eace254c88b72a1e0fb2372d2c90fbfc4b01281c2dd0d8a1013e