diff --git a/general/prog/python3.xml b/general/prog/python3.xml
index f93dfd6c11..d589f18262 100644
--- a/general/prog/python3.xml
+++ b/general/prog/python3.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY python3-download-http
            "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python3-version;/Python-&python3-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY python3-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY python3-md5sum        "fe92acfa0db9b9f5044958edb451d463">
+  <!ENTITY python3-md5sum        "4efe92adf28875c77d3b9b2e8d3bc44a">
   <!ENTITY python3-size          "19 MB">
   <!ENTITY python3-buildsize     "282 MB (add 63 MB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY python3-time          "2.1 SBU (add 1.2 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 7863d42631..bb0d9b1ea4 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 22nd, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.11.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17378">#17378</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to IO-Socket-SSL-2.078 (Perl module). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17392">#17392</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 0bab6cb3f6..dbaadadb3d 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 
 <!ENTITY python3-major                "3">
 <!ENTITY python3-minor                "11">
-<!ENTITY python3-patch                "0">
+<!ENTITY python3-patch                "1">
 <!ENTITY python3-majorver             "&python3-major;.&python3-minor;">
 <!ENTITY python3-version              "&python3-majorver;.&python3-patch;">
 <!ENTITY python3-lib-suffix           "cpython-&python3-major;&python3-minor;-&lt;arch&gt;-linux-gnu">