diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3906db6..beac2f3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 /pelican-3.5.0.tar.gz
 /pelican-3.6.0.tar.gz
 /pelican-3.6.3.tar.gz
+/pelican-3.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/pelican-3.7.0-fix-changelog.patch b/pelican-3.7.0-fix-changelog.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c9548d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pelican-3.7.0-fix-changelog.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 01d536d7c9ddd6e1090d69b5f4445e37d4019d40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Justin Mayer <entroP@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:10:46 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Replace m-dash with semi-colon in changelog
+
+Stop-gap measure to address:
+https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/commit/e3ab685a26b3dd2d198319b625d380c4f80afbf7#commitcomment-20333961
+---
+ docs/changelog.rst | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
+index 3186835..1956e47 100644
+--- a/docs/changelog.rst
++++ b/docs/changelog.rst
+@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Next release
+   ``<updated>`` for modifications
+ * Simplify Atom feed ID generation and support URL fragments
+ * Produce category feeds with category-specific titles
+-* RSS feeds now default to summary instead of full content —
++* RSS feeds now default to summary instead of full content;
+   set ``RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = False`` to revert to previous behavior
+ * Replace ``MD_EXTENSIONS`` with ``MARKDOWN`` setting
+ * Replace ``JINJA_EXTENSIONS`` with more-robust ``JINJA_ENVIRONMENT`` setting
diff --git a/python-pelican.spec b/python-pelican.spec
index cd4c022..5036094 100644
--- a/python-pelican.spec
+++ b/python-pelican.spec
@@ -5,14 +5,18 @@
 %global pypi_name pelican
 %{!?__python2:%global __python2 %{__python}}
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        3.6.3
-Release:        7%{?dist}
+Version:        3.7.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A tool to generate a static blog from reStructuredText or Markdown input files
 
 License:        AGPLv3
 URL:            http://getpelican.com
 Source0:        https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{pypi_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
+# patch to address utf8 issue in changelog
+# https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/commit/01d536d7c9ddd6e1090d69b5f4445e37d4019d40.patch
+Patch0: pelican-3.7.0-fix-changelog.patch
+
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
@@ -107,7 +111,7 @@ Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python_.
 
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n %{pypi_name}-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n %{pypi_name}-%{version}
 # make file not zero length to silence rpmlint
 echo " " > pelican/themes/simple/templates/tag.html
 
@@ -126,7 +130,7 @@ sed -i "s|'pytz >= 0a'|'pytz'|" setup.py
 %py2_build
 
 # build docs
-sphinx-build docs html
+PYTHONPATH=.:$PYTHONPATH sphinx-build docs html
 
 # remove leftovers from sphinxbuild
 rm html/_downloads/theme-basic.zip html/_static/theme-basic.zip
@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ mv %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes
 # disable tests for now. they are a bit unstable due comparing
 # html attributes via diff. Failed several times, when attributes
 # were ordered differently!
-#nosetests -sv --with-coverage --cover-package=pelican pelican
+# nosetests -sv --with-coverage --cover-package=pelican pelican
 
 %files -n python2-%{pypi_name}
 %doc html README.rst
@@ -181,6 +185,9 @@ mv %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/pelican-themes
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jan 03 2017 Matthias Runge <mrunge@redhat.com> - 3.7.0-1
+- update to 3.7.0
+
 * Mon Dec 19 2016 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 3.6.3-7
 - Rebuild for Python 3.6
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index acab593..c4b1300 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-efa618347c910d2594e8c1521ccf4458  pelican-3.6.3.tar.gz
+SHA512 (pelican-3.7.0.tar.gz) = e4b8a771737a8f6fab109b0f4544229f09141f38210b502f605ae449be7ba12bb43db6637592d2e9060255e923f092c6cfe8dc7bbeec1431d5b625f3a9b8222d