diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4adf89..bfec4c1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@
 /0002-suppression-Add-has_strict_flexible_array_data_membe.patch
 /libabigail-2.5.tar.xz
 /libabigail-2.6.tar.xz
+/libabigail-2.7.tar.xz
+/libabigail-2.8.tar.xz
+/libabigail-2.9.tar.xz
diff --git a/libabigail.spec b/libabigail.spec
index ed3dfbd..d06b80b 100644
--- a/libabigail.spec
+++ b/libabigail.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %global tarball_name %{name}-%{version}
 
 Name: libabigail
-Version: 2.6
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 2.9
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Set of ABI analysis tools
 
 License: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ BuildRequires: libtool
 BuildRequires: elfutils-devel
 BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: xxhash-devel
-# libabigail builds with XXH_INLINE_ALL, so depend on (virtual) xxhash-static
-BuildRequires: xxhash-static
+BuildRequires: xz-devel >= 5.2.0
 BuildRequires: doxygen
 BuildRequires: python3-sphinx
 BuildRequires: texinfo
@@ -127,8 +126,7 @@ make -C doc/manuals install-man-and-info-doc DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
 %py3_shebang_fix %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
 
 %check
-time make %{?_smp_mflags} check || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
-time make %{?_smp_mflags} check-self-compare ENABLE_SLOW_TEST=yes || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
+time make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-self-compare || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
 
 %ldconfig_scriptlets
 
@@ -142,8 +140,8 @@ time make %{?_smp_mflags} check-self-compare ENABLE_SLOW_TEST=yes || (cat tests/
 %if %{with abidb}
 %{_bindir}/abidb
 %endif
-%{_libdir}/libabigail.so.5
-%{_libdir}/libabigail.so.5.0.0
+%{_libdir}/libabigail.so.8
+%{_libdir}/libabigail.so.8.0.0
 %{_libdir}/libabigail/default.abignore
 %doc README AUTHORS ChangeLog
 %license LICENSE.txt license-change-2020.txt
@@ -165,6 +163,22 @@ time make %{?_smp_mflags} check-self-compare ENABLE_SLOW_TEST=yes || (cat tests/
 %{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Nov 06 2025 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 2.9-1
+- Update to upstream 2.9 tarball
+- Support new libabigail.so.8.0.0 SONAME
+- Run 'make check check-self-compare' instead of two separate make invocations.
+
+* Fri Jul 04 2025 Dodji Seketeli  <dodji@redhat.com> - 2.8-1
+- Update to usptream 2.8 tarball
+- Support new libabigail.so.7.0.0 SONAME
+
+* Fri Apr 11 2025 Dodji Seketeli  <dodji@redhat.com> - 2.7-1
+- Update to upstream 2.7 tarball
+- Do not build with by default XXH_INLINE_ALL anymore
+- Drop xxhash-static dependency
+- Add xz-devel >= 5.2.0 dependency to support reading xz-compressed binaries
+- Support new libabigail.so.6.0.0 SONAME
+
 * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.6-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3146d43..ee4135f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libabigail-2.6.tar.xz) = 77983586c9fa99ab5593e41e33ddfc175aef7a2ddfabb7eac79a9adfd776e7dbbb317f6d4c26044c420f2eac1f9d25e0c04887a54bb3136cc91e61219a1343e4
+SHA512 (libabigail-2.9.tar.xz) = 5bdf5ec49a5931a61bf28317b41eee583d6277d00ac621b2d2a97bbc0d816c3662bcfe13a5ac7aeee11c947afb69a5a0a9a8015fcebad09965b45af9b1e23606