diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0731517..1ce8828 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /kokkos-e79d6b7311fb91c81477a7fc458ca5408e0c19d2.tar.gz
 /kokkos-3.0.00.tar.gz
 /kokkos-3.1.00.tar.gz
+/kokkos-3.1.01.tar.gz
diff --git a/2961.patch b/2961.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8eb5b83..0000000
--- a/2961.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From b3cf3bca09e68f9c2076998d25179635e40e2d09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christoph Junghans <junghans@lanl.gov>
-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:14:14 -0600
-Subject: [PATCH] fix typo in KOKKOS_SET_EXE_PROPERTY()
-
----
- cmake/kokkos_tribits.cmake | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/cmake/kokkos_tribits.cmake b/cmake/kokkos_tribits.cmake
-index 1c3b704ad..6ee1409aa 100644
---- a/cmake/kokkos_tribits.cmake
-+++ b/cmake/kokkos_tribits.cmake
-@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ FUNCTION(KOKKOS_SET_EXE_PROPERTY ROOT_NAME)
-   IF (NOT TARGET ${TARGET_NAME})
-     MESSAGE(SEND_ERROR "No target ${TARGET_NAME} exists - cannot set target properties")
-   ENDIF()
--  SET_PROPERTY(TARGET ${TARGET_PROPERTY} PROPERTY ${ARGN})
-+  SET_PROPERTY(TARGET ${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTY ${ARGN})
- ENDFUNCTION()
- 
- MACRO(KOKKOS_SETUP_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT)
diff --git a/kokkos.spec b/kokkos.spec
index 3908b0a..d24dc23 100644
--- a/kokkos.spec
+++ b/kokkos.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           kokkos
-Version:        3.1.00
+Version:        3.1.01
 %global         sover 3.1.0
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming 
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ ExcludeArch: i686 armv7hl
 License:        BSD 
 URL:            https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos
 Source0:        https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/pull/2961.patch
-
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  cmake3 >= 3.0
@@ -38,11 +36,11 @@ This package contains the development files of %{name}.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 mkdir build
 pushd build
+
 %{cmake3} \
   -DKokkos_ENABLE_TESTS=On \
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=include/kokkos \
@@ -73,6 +71,10 @@ make -C build test CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 %{?testargs}
 %{_bindir}/nvcc_wrapper
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 06 2020 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 3.1.01-1
+- Version bump to v3.1.01
+- drop 2961.patch - merge upstream
+
 * Thu Apr 16 2020 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 3.1.00-1
 - Version bump to v3.1.00 (bug #1824998)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2f0c6da..8b5c2d0 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (kokkos-3.1.00.tar.gz) = 7933542c24e137052d630a503d707912295022863f2d47c89c4a35a9c8a70514763d89e321c66a3878575e661461ede45ac44d74cf45eca2470e7f57840d5c0c
+SHA512 (kokkos-3.1.01.tar.gz) = 4fa428ec33ec207147b3fcc5e0d297bcff4ed772ba6baa24ccaf56b691b72b70c69bd48fdf134f4e78234bf755377fe01a31611a41539c2d211ba9caed24b1f2