diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index f56b53485..111f08ca6 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 set -e
-lark_version=0.11.3
+lark_version=1.1.9
 
 while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do
     case $1 in
@@ -70,9 +70,14 @@ rm -Rf Makefile.in \
        bin/config.h.in \
        build-aux \
        configure
-# Remove Lark, but only if requested.
+# Remove Lark if requested or the installed version does not match.
+lark_found=$( shopt -s nullglob; \
+              echo lib/lark*.dist-info | sed -E 's/^.*-([0-9.]+)\..*$/\1/' )
+if [[ $lark_found && $lark_found != "$lark_version" ]]; then
+    lark_shovel=yes
+fi
 if [[ $lark_shovel ]]; then
-    rm -Rfv lib/lark lib/lark-stubs lib/lark*.dist-info lib/lark*.egg-info
+    rm -Rf lib/lark lib/lark-stubs lib/lark*.dist-info lib/lark*.egg-info
 fi
 
 # Create configure and friends.
@@ -91,6 +96,11 @@ if [[ -z $clean ]]; then
         # Also remove Lark’s installer stuff.
         rm lib/lark/__pyinstaller/*.py
         rmdir lib/lark/__pyinstaller
+        # Some versions of pip install this file, while others don’t [1]. We
+        # don’t care about it, so remove it to avoid Make errors if it’s
+        # listed in Makefile.am and then an older pip is used to build.
+        # [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/8026
+        rm -f lib/lark-${lark_version}.dist-info/REQUESTED
     fi
     if [[    -e lib/lark \
           && ! -e lib/lark-${lark_version}.dist-info/INSTALLER ]]; then
diff --git a/bin/ch-test b/bin/ch-test
index 45907d8ba..d5f3b7bc7 100755
--- a/bin/ch-test
+++ b/bin/ch-test
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ if [[ ! -f ${ch_base}/VERSION ]]; then
 else
     # build dir
     CHTEST_INSTALLED=
-    if [[ -d ${ch_base}/.git ]]; then
+    if [[ -e ${ch_base}/.git ]]; then
         CHTEST_GITWD=yes
     else
         CHTEST_GITWD=
diff --git a/doc/dev.rst b/doc/dev.rst
index 25d4989f0..8f7986c21 100644
--- a/doc/dev.rst
+++ b/doc/dev.rst
@@ -1574,11 +1574,11 @@ Updating bundled Lark parser
 ----------------------------
 
 In order to change the version of the bundled lark parser you must modify
-multiple files. To find them, e.g. for version 0.11.3 (the regex is hairy to
+multiple files. To find them, e.g. for version 1.1.9 (the regex is hairy to
 catch both dot notation and tuples, but not the list of filenames in
 :code:`lib/Makefile.am`)::
 
-  $ misc/grep -E '0(\.|, )11(\.|, )3($|\s|\))'
+  $ misc/grep -E '1(\.|, )1(\.|, )9($|\s|\))'
 
 What to do in each location should either be obvious or commented.
 
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index bc2f2365e..8d8f1378c 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -21,39 +21,29 @@ mylib_DATA = contributors.bash \
              version.sh \
              version.txt
 
-# Bundled Lark (currently version 0.11.3); Automake does not support wildcards
+# Bundled Lark (currently version 1.1.9); Automake does not support wildcards
 # [1], so list the files. Note it's version-specific. Hopefully if a new
 # version of Lark adds a file and we omit it here by mistake, the tests will
 # catch it. To get this list:
 #
-# $ (cd lib && find lark lark-stubs lark-*.dist-info -xtype f) | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -E 's/$/ \\/'
+# $ (cd lib && find lark lark-*.dist-info -xtype f) | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -E 's/$/ \\/'
 #
 # Then, copy-n-paste & remove the last backslash. PROOFREAD YOUR DIFF!!!
 
 LARK = \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/INSTALLER \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/LICENSE \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/METADATA \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/RECORD \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/WHEEL \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/entry_points.txt \
-lark-0.11.3.dist-info/top_level.txt \
-lark-stubs/__init__.pyi \
-lark-stubs/ast_utils.pyi \
-lark-stubs/exceptions.pyi \
-lark-stubs/grammar.pyi \
-lark-stubs/indenter.pyi \
-lark-stubs/lark.pyi \
-lark-stubs/lexer.pyi \
-lark-stubs/load_grammar.pyi \
-lark-stubs/reconstruct.pyi \
-lark-stubs/tree.pyi \
-lark-stubs/visitors.pyi \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/INSTALLER \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/LICENSE \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/METADATA \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/RECORD \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/WHEEL \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/entry_points.txt \
+lark-1.1.9.dist-info/top_level.txt \
 lark/__init__.py \
 lark/ast_utils.py \
 lark/common.py \
 lark/exceptions.py \
 lark/grammar.py \
+lark/grammars/__init__.py \
 lark/grammars/common.lark \
 lark/grammars/lark.lark \
 lark/grammars/python.lark \
@@ -73,8 +63,9 @@ lark/parsers/grammar_analysis.py \
 lark/parsers/lalr_analysis.py \
 lark/parsers/lalr_interactive_parser.py \
 lark/parsers/lalr_parser.py \
-lark/parsers/lalr_puppet.py \
+lark/parsers/lalr_parser_state.py \
 lark/parsers/xearley.py \
+lark/py.typed \
 lark/reconstruct.py \
 lark/tools/__init__.py \
 lark/tools/nearley.py \
@@ -82,6 +73,7 @@ lark/tools/serialize.py \
 lark/tools/standalone.py \
 lark/tree.py \
 lark/tree_matcher.py \
+lark/tree_templates.py \
 lark/utils.py \
 lark/visitors.py
 if ENABLE_LARK
diff --git a/lib/build.py b/lib/build.py
index de434a7e2..41130763f 100644
--- a/lib/build.py
+++ b/lib/build.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 ## Imports not in standard library ##
 
-# See charliecloud.py for the messy import of this.
+# See image.py for the messy import of this.
 lark = im.lark
 
 
@@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ class Rsync_G(Copy):
    def __init__(self, *args):
       super().__init__(*args)
       self.from_ = None  # not supported yet
-      line_no = self.tree.line
+      line_no = self.tree.meta.line
       st = self.tree.child("option_plus")
       self.plus_option = "l" if st is None else st.terminal("OPTION_LETTER")
       options_done = False
diff --git a/packaging/fedora/charliecloud.spec b/packaging/fedora/charliecloud.spec
index 52dfaeabe..604f290f1 100644
--- a/packaging/fedora/charliecloud.spec
+++ b/packaging/fedora/charliecloud.spec
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Requires:      %{name}
 Requires:      python3
 Requires:      python%{python3_pkgversion}-lark-parser
 Requires:      python%{python3_pkgversion}-requests
-Provides:      bundled(python%{python3_pkgversion}-lark-parser) = 0.11.3
+Provides:      bundled(python%{python3_pkgversion}-lark-parser) = 1.1.9
 
 %description builder
 This package provides ch-image, Charliecloud's completely unprivileged container
@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ ln -s "${sphinxdir}/js"    %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}/html/_static/js
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/force.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/image.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark
-%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-0.11.3.dist-info
-%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-stubs
+%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-1.1.9.dist-info
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/misc.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/pull.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/push.py
diff --git a/packaging/fedora/upstream.spec b/packaging/fedora/upstream.spec
index e284f0ed5..2c18743cd 100644
--- a/packaging/fedora/upstream.spec
+++ b/packaging/fedora/upstream.spec
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ ln -s "${sphinxdir}/js"    %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}/html/_static/js
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/charliecloud.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/fakeroot.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark
-%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-0.11.3.dist-info
+%{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-1.1.8.dist-info
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/lark-stubs
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/misc.py
 %{_prefix}/lib/%{name}/pull.py