diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 20ff429..d34f2fa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ libxml++-2.30.0.tar.bz2
 /libxml++-2.38.1.tar.xz
 /libxml++-2.40.0.tar.xz
 /libxml++-2.40.1.tar.xz
+/libxml++-2.42.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/libxml++.spec b/libxml++.spec
index 13dd65e..582dfd6 100644
--- a/libxml++.spec
+++ b/libxml++.spec
@@ -3,17 +3,21 @@
 %define release_version %(echo %{version} | awk -F. '{print $1"."$2}')
 
 Name:           libxml++
-Version:        2.40.1
-Release:        11%{?dist}
+Version:        2.42.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library
 
 License:        LGPLv2+
 URL:            http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/%{release_version}/libxml++-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+BuildRequires:  docbook-style-xsl
+BuildRequires:  doxygen, graphviz
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
-BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel >= 2.6.1
-BuildRequires:  glibmm24-devel >= 2.4.0
+BuildRequires:  glibmm24-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxslt
+BuildRequires:  meson
 
 %description
 libxml++ is a C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library. Its original
@@ -33,7 +37,6 @@ This package contains the headers and libraries for libxml++ development.
 %package        doc
 Summary:        Documentation for %{name}, includes full API docs
 BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  doxygen, graphviz
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires:       glibmm24-doc
 
@@ -46,12 +49,11 @@ This package contains the full API documentation for %{name}.
 sed -i s'#\r##' examples/dom_parser/example_with_namespace.xml
 
 %build
-%configure --disable-static
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+%meson -Dbuild-documentation=true
+%meson_build
 
 %install
-make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.la" -o -name '*.a' | xargs rm -f
+%meson_install
 
 
 %ldconfig_scriptlets
@@ -76,6 +78,10 @@ find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.la" -o -name '*.a' | xargs rm -f
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Oct  5 2020 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 2.42.0-1
+- Update to 2.42.0
+- Switch to meson build system
+
 * Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.40.1-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 93eb0ed..30915ac 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-377a87bea899f2b4ff62df2418c3d8a6  libxml++-2.40.1.tar.xz
+SHA512 (libxml++-2.42.0.tar.xz) = 2fca5dbea3a71caf3c1264dcbbc808ee92463aa93c64ff1252826275de927b6d5837c58c29e3c837c09b7b8776c818c7c7f568d4a2061df55546fe31def7db51