diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a24d91b..b0402f1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /Python-3.5.1.tar.xz
 /Python-3.5.2.tar.xz
 /Python-3.6.0.tar.xz
+/Python-3.6.1rc1.tar.xz
diff --git a/python3-docs.spec b/python3-docs.spec
index bdf6431..81da99e 100644
--- a/python3-docs.spec
+++ b/python3-docs.spec
@@ -14,16 +14,19 @@
 %global python python
 %endif
 
+# First release cadidate
+%global prerel rc1
+
 %define pybasever 3.6
 
 Summary: Documentation for the Python 3 programming language
 Name: %{python}-docs
 # The Version needs to be in-sync with the "python" package:
-Version: %{pybasever}.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: %{pybasever}.1
+Release: 0.1.%{?prerel}%{?dist}
 License: Python
 Group: Documentation
-Source: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/%{version}/Python-%{version}.tar.xz
+Source: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/%{version}/Python-%{version}%{?prerel}.tar.xz
 BuildArch: noarch
 
 Requires: %{python} = %{version}
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ Install the python3-docs package if you'd like to use the documentation
 for the Python 3 language.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n Python-%{version}
+%setup -q -n Python-%{version}%{?prerel}
 
 %build
 make -C Doc html SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 PYTHON=%{python}
@@ -74,6 +77,9 @@ linkchecker \
 %doc Misc/NEWS Misc/HISTORY Misc/README Doc/build/html
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Mar 17 2017 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 3.6.1-0.1.rc1
+- Update to 3.6.1 release candidate 1
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.6.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 7b47bed..676f3bf 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Python-3.6.0.tar.xz) = 9d06bee9172bc0bfd2d280fd1c27ea712f3258cfbfd2e2aeb734d0a6710998d5deeefc5d6e72251750dd9493d35461511ceaa187a29dea700ca238ff6ac1dbb2
+SHA512 (Python-3.6.1rc1.tar.xz) = 21ae75db2a568ba85af5510d45c3616595ae00b9f5008d78b926340980b4728f4fd393d2ecd435d2902cd25aba50a8b98f5cdbfa651da75c8f164909bc4730be