diff --git a/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/actions.py b/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/actions.py
index 5912719b29..d9b5ce5d74 100644
--- a/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/actions.py
+++ b/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/actions.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ from pisi.actionsapi import pisitools
 def build():
     # suppress compiler warnings
     pisitools.cflags.add("-Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-discarded-qualifiers -Wno-sign-conversion -Wno-sign-compare")
+    # fix unused direct dependency analysis
+    shelltools.export("LDSHARED", "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1,--as-needed -shared -lpthread -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common")
     pythonmodules.compile(pyVer="3")
     # build documentation
     shelltools.cd("docs")
diff --git a/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/pspec.xml b/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/pspec.xml
index 8b13f6accc..436a485940 100644
--- a/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/python3/python3-cryptography/pspec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>Cryptographic recipes for Python3</Summary>
         <Description>A package designed to expose cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="d30a891552c70febeb67f936877a8abfc220e0ef" type="targz">https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/archive/2.9.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="e37f171361b555b72eb640521480c9f5380b1ee0" type="targz">https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/archive/2.9.1.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>python3-setuptools</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-devel</Dependency>
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="3">
+            <Date>2020-04-22</Date>
+            <Version>2.9.1</Version>
+            <Comment>Patch version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Blue Devil</Name>
+            <Email>bluedevil@sctzine.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="2">
             <Date>2020-04-07</Date>
             <Version>2.9</Version>