diff --git a/system/base/python3/actions.py b/system/base/python3/actions.py
index 0ecf005d..36c42ec9 100644
--- a/system/base/python3/actions.py
+++ b/system/base/python3/actions.py
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ from pisi.actionsapi import pisitools
 from pisi.actionsapi import shelltools
 
 def setup():
+    shelltools.system("echo -e '\033[0;36mBuilding Bzip2\033[0m' ")
+    shelltools.makedirs("%s/temp/lib" %get.workDIR())
+    shelltools.cd("bzip2-1.0.8")
+    autotools.make('CC=%s AR=%s RANLIB=%s CFLAGS="%s -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC" libbz2.a' % (get.CC(), get.AR(), get.RANLIB(), get.CFLAGS()))
+    shelltools.system("cp libbz2.a %s/temp/lib/libbz2.a" % get.workDIR())
+    shelltools.cd("..")
+	
     pisitools.flags.add("-fwrapv")
 
     pisitools.dosed("Lib/cgi.py","^#.* /usr/local/bin/python","#!/usr/bin/python")
@@ -20,7 +27,10 @@ def setup():
     #shelltools.unlinkDir("Modules/_ctypes/libffi_msvc")
     shelltools.unlinkDir("Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx")
     #shelltools.unlinkDir("Modules/_decimal/libmpdec")
-
+    
+    shelltools.export("CFLAGS", "-I%s/temp/include -O3" %get.workDIR())
+    shelltools.export("LDFLAGS", "-L%s/temp/lib -lbz2 -lpthread -ldl" %get.workDIR())
+    
     autotools.rawConfigure("\
                             --prefix=/usr \
                             --enable-shared \
diff --git a/system/base/python3/pspec.xml b/system/base/python3/pspec.xml
index b7210985..b98d505a 100644
--- a/system/base/python3/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/base/python3/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
         <PartOf>programming.language</PartOf>
         <Summary>Next generation of the python high-level scripting language</Summary>
         <Description>Next generation of the python high-level scripting language</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="7720e0384558c598107cf046c48165fd7e1f5b2c" type="tarxz">https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/Python-3.8.0.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="a48fd28a037c0bcd7b7fc4d914c023f584e910ed" type="tarxz">https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/Python-3.8.1.tar.xz</Archive>
+		<Archive sha1sum="bf7badf7e248e0ecf465d33c2f5aeec774209227" type="targz" target="Python-3.8.1">https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
 <!--             <Dependency>valgrind</Dependency> -->
             <Dependency>bzip2</Dependency>
@@ -123,6 +124,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+		<Update release="8">
+            <Date>2019-12-23</Date>
+            <Version>3.8.1</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump</Comment>
+            <Name>Idris Kalp</Name>
+            <Email>idriskalp@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
 		<Update release="7">
             <Date>2019-12-10</Date>
             <Version>3.8.0</Version>