diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a828d12..762cf25 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (utfcpp-4.0.9.tar.gz) = 02e2b84b5ea827dfbc7fc1fef52e30d72fb2aca3e81ea7780d0286fe67c49500b3acf8f877af2b5feac81af2244341b9052ffbceed774e5442a8184785207478
+SHA512 (utfcpp-4.1.0.tar.gz) = 42e581a7f43b769ddd69f4541adbc5ac55935627a327b237d0571bb8959a6b5c79197da2e0393612d967ba32e06e14e73a1774d39e73af60da6a234ba9499d15
diff --git a/utf8cpp.spec b/utf8cpp.spec
index 202c5c7..ba7e660 100644
--- a/utf8cpp.spec
+++ b/utf8cpp.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %global ftest_shortcommit %(c=%{ftest_commit}; echo ${c:0:7})
 
 Name:       utf8cpp
-Version:    4.0.9
-Release:    2%{?dist}
+Version:    4.1.0
+Release:    1%{?dist}
 Summary:    A simple, portable and lightweight library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings
 License:    BSL-1.0
 URL:        https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pushd tests
 popd
 
 %files devel
-%doc README.md
+%doc API_REFERENCE.md README.md
 %license LICENSE
 %{_includedir}/utf8.h
 %dir %{_includedir}/utf8
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ popd
 %{_datadir}/cmake/utf8cpp
 
 %changelog
+* Mon May 18 2026 Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik@greysector.net> - 4.1.0-1
+- update to 4.1.0 (resolves rhbz#2478190)
+
 * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.9-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild