diff --git a/general/prog/python3.xml b/general/prog/python3.xml
index be3cb779c9..c556acd49b 100644
--- a/general/prog/python3.xml
+++ b/general/prog/python3.xml
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
   <!ENTITY python3-download-http
            "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python3-version;/Python-&python3-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY python3-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY python3-md5sum        "0a57e9022c07fad3dadb2eef58568edb">
+  <!ENTITY python3-md5sum        "df6ec36011808205beda239c72f947cb">
   <!ENTITY python3-size          "16 MB">
-  <!ENTITY python3-buildsize     "176 MB (add 29 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY python3-time          "0.9 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 1.7 SBU for tests)">
-
+  <!ENTITY python3-buildsize     "337 MB (add 29 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY python3-time          "1.2 SBU (add 2.0 SBU for tests)">
+  <!--
   <!ENTITY python3htmldoc-download-http
-           "https://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/&python3-version;/python-&python3-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2">
+  "https://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/&python3-version;/python-&python3-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2"> -->
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="python3" xreflabel="Python-&python3-version;">
@@ -79,29 +79,15 @@
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
-<!--
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <title>Optional HTML Documentation</title>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python3htmldoc-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
--->
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python 3 Dependencies</bridgehead>
-<!--
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
-    <para role="recommended">
-      <xref linkend="libffi"/>
-    </para>
--->
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
       <xref linkend="bluez"/>,
-      <xref linkend="gdb"/> (required for some tests), and
-      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
+      <xref linkend="gdb"/> (required for some tests),
+      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>, and
+      <ulink url="http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal">libmpcdec</ulink>
     </para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (For Additional Modules)</bridgehead>
@@ -142,32 +128,19 @@ make</userinput></screen>
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python3-majorver;m.so &amp;&amp;
 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so</userinput></screen>
-<!--
-    <para>
-      If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation from
-      <ulink url="http://docs.python.org/download.html"/>, install it
-      as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-    </para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python3-version;/html &amp;&amp;
-tar - -strip-components=1 \
-    - -no-same-owner \
-    - -no-same-permissions \
-    -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python3-version;/html \
-    -xvf ../python-&python3-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
--->
     <para>
       The test suite must be run separately from the build, either before or
       after the package is built and installed. Do not run
       <command>make install</command> after running the test suite. To build
       and install the package, you need to start with a fresh or clean source
-      tree. For the test, you also need a clean source code, so either start by
+      tree. For the tests, you also need a clean source code, so either start by
       removing the source code directory and starting over, by uncompressing
       the source tarball or by running <command>make clean</command>. Then
       configure again, adding <quote>--with-pydebug</quote> to the
       <command>configure</command> switches above, run <command>make</command>,
       then <command>make test</command>. Remember that tests must be executed
-      using an X terminal. One test fails. The test SBU highly depends on the
+      using an X terminal. Two tests fail. The test SBU highly depends on the
       speed of the internet connection.
     </para>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index b338ba2ec0..2ae8dce13e 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 28th, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to Python-3.7.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11748">#11478</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem revision="systemd">
           <para>[renodr] - Update to systemd-240. Fixes four vulneabilities. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11470">#11470</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 5d281280dd..4888e79855 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
 <!ENTITY php-version                  "7.3.0">
 <!ENTITY python2-version              "2.7.15">
-<!ENTITY python3-version              "3.7.1">
+<!ENTITY python3-version              "3.7.2">
 <!ENTITY ruby-minor-version           "2.5">
 <!ENTITY ruby-patch-version           "3">
 <!ENTITY ruby-version                 "&ruby-minor-version;.&ruby-patch-version;">