diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6f49dae..09746f1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SOURCES/osbuild-39.tar.gz
+SOURCES/osbuild-42.tar.gz
diff --git a/.osbuild.metadata b/.osbuild.metadata
index 3063b3a..ff6d761 100644
--- a/.osbuild.metadata
+++ b/.osbuild.metadata
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c864a199f07ec0a585c17b788d738ab2dcf39d30 SOURCES/osbuild-39.tar.gz
+b8cf5a56914828be3315523c90271c46ae8ceda8 SOURCES/osbuild-42.tar.gz
diff --git a/SPECS/osbuild.spec b/SPECS/osbuild.spec
index 46e74c9..5a2621a 100644
--- a/SPECS/osbuild.spec
+++ b/SPECS/osbuild.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %global         forgeurl https://github.com/osbuild/osbuild
 %global         selinuxtype targeted
 
-Version:        39
+Version:        42
 
 %forgemeta
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Requires:       dnf
 Requires:       e2fsprogs
 Requires:       glibc
 Requires:       policycoreutils
+Requires:       python36
 Requires:       qemu-img
 Requires:       systemd
 Requires:       tar
@@ -53,7 +54,9 @@ Requires:       (%{name}-selinux if selinux-policy-%{selinuxtype})
 # RHEL NB: Since assemblers and stages are not excluded from the dependency
 # generator, this also means that an additional dependency on /usr/bin/python3
 # will be added. This is intended and needed, so that in the host build root
-# /usr/bin/python3 is present so stages and assemblers can be run.
+# /usr/bin/python3 is present so stages and assemblers can be run. Although,
+# on RHEL 8, we also explicitly require python36, since the exact version is
+# used by the RHEL 8 runners to set up /etc/alternatives for python3.
 %global __brp_mangle_shebangs_exclude_from ^%{pkgdir}/(assemblers|runners|stages)/.*$
 
 %{?python_enable_dependency_generator}
@@ -175,7 +178,7 @@ exit 0
 
 %files -n       python3-%{pypi_name}
 %license LICENSE
-%doc README.md NEWS.md
+%doc README.md
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}-*.egg-info/
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}/
 
@@ -207,6 +210,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Nov 29 2021 Ondřej Budai <ondrej@budai.cz> - 42-1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Fri Oct 15 2021 Achilleas Koutsou <achilleas@redhat.com> - 39-1
 - New upstream release