diff --git a/Do-not-turn-DeprecationWarning-into-Exception.patch b/Do-not-turn-DeprecationWarning-into-Exception.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..198376b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Do-not-turn-DeprecationWarning-into-Exception.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From eccbc528d9800bdfef5e1795e6bada446aafaf43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Lumir Balhar <lbalhar@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:50:14 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Do not turn DeprecationWarning into Exception
+
+---
+ tornado/test/runtests.py | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tornado/test/runtests.py b/tornado/test/runtests.py
+index e4f938d3..cd2a5b87 100644
+--- a/tornado/test/runtests.py
++++ b/tornado/test/runtests.py
+@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ def main():
+     # Tornado generally shouldn't use anything deprecated, but some of
+     # our dependencies do (last match wins).
+     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)
+-    warnings.filterwarnings("error", category=DeprecationWarning,
+-                            module=r"tornado\..*")
+     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=PendingDeprecationWarning)
+     warnings.filterwarnings("error", category=PendingDeprecationWarning,
+                             module=r"tornado\..*")
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/python-tornado.spec b/python-tornado.spec
index 175e20b..acb395d 100644
--- a/python-tornado.spec
+++ b/python-tornado.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
 Version:        5.1.1
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools
 
 License:        ASL 2.0
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Source0:        %{pypi_source}
 # Tornado has them, mostly in docstrings and the tests treat them as errors
 # Fixed upstream: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/6dceb64ed27c1d48af22142f2ebae946f0e85e95
 Patch0:         fix-syntax-warnings.patch
+# Do not turn DeprecationWarning in tornado module into Exception
+# fixes FTBFS with Python 3.8
+Patch1:         Do-not-turn-DeprecationWarning-into-Exception.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 
@@ -122,6 +125,10 @@ export ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT=10
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 16 2019 Lumír Balhar <lbalhar@redhat.com> - 5.1.1-2
+- New patch to not turn DeprecationWarning in tornado module into Exception
+- Fixes FTBFS with Python 3.8
+
 * Wed Mar 27 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 5.1.1-1
 - Update to 5.1.1
 - Fix SyntaxWarnings (turned into SyntaxErrors) on Python 3.8