diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 198db35..15033a2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /attr-2.[45].*.tar.gz
+/attr-2.5.*.tar.xz
diff --git a/attr-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig b/attr-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a0756e..0000000
Binary files a/attr-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/attr-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig b/attr-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30e62b3
Binary files /dev/null and b/attr-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig differ
diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index 8b2bfbf..d94d16e 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Utilities for managing filesystem extended attributes
 Name: attr
 Version: 2.5.1
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Source0: https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/attr/attr-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/attr/attr-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig
 # Retreived from https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15000
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ ln -fs ../sys/xattr.h $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir}/attr/xattr.h
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xattr.conf
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jul 08 2021 Stewart Smith <trawets@amazon.com> - 2.5.1-2
+- use xz compressed tarball
+
 * Tue Mar 16 2021 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.5.1-1
 - new upstream release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a7e4fdb..377a1c3 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (attr-2.5.1.tar.gz) = 8b4c043d61f8f3e0cd098e701181069f51117b85fd6ba18bfe9af77d894ea671232377d4793ffc822e9259ceee6ac71d75732eb93b2830c6cb5d0d918ba2d21b
+SHA512 (attr-2.5.1.tar.xz) = 9e5555260189bb6ef2440c76700ebb813ff70582eb63d446823874977307d13dfa3a347dfae619f8866943dfa4b24ccf67dadd7e3ea2637239fdb219be5d2932