diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e66b05a..c37fff4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 /eccodes_test_data_20250202.tar.gz
 /eccodes-2.40.0-Source.tar.gz
 /eccodes-2.42.0-Source.tar.gz
-/eccodes-2.44.0-Source.tar.gz
diff --git a/eccodes-soversion.patch b/eccodes-soversion.patch
index fd4b224..e034ca0 100644
--- a/eccodes-soversion.patch
+++ b/eccodes-soversion.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- eccodes-2.44.0-Source.unchanged/fortran/CMakeLists.txt	2025-10-06 11:49:11.000000000 +0200
-+++ eccodes-2.44.0-Source/fortran/CMakeLists.txt	2025-11-07 11:33:03.765320420 +0100
+--- eccodes-2.42.0-Source.unchanged/fortran/CMakeLists.txt	2025-06-30 10:44:08.000000000 +0200
++++ eccodes-2.42.0-Source/fortran/CMakeLists.txt	2025-07-19 16:36:56.908027305 +0200
 @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ if( HAVE_FORTRAN )
                           GENERATED       grib_f90.f90 eccodes_f90.f90
                           PUBLIC_INCLUDES $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY}>
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
  
      if( DEFINED ecbuild_VERSION AND NOT ${ecbuild_VERSION} VERSION_LESS 3.1 )
          # Installed module directory is not in the PUBLIC INCLUDES!
---- eccodes-2.44.0-Source.unchanged/src/eccodes/CMakeLists.txt	2025-10-06 11:49:11.000000000 +0200
-+++ eccodes-2.44.0-Source/src/eccodes/CMakeLists.txt	2025-11-07 11:33:03.784437554 +0100
-@@ -447,6 +447,8 @@ ecbuild_add_library( TARGET    eccodes
+--- eccodes-2.42.0-Source.unchanged/src/eccodes/CMakeLists.txt	2025-06-30 10:44:08.000000000 +0200
++++ eccodes-2.42.0-Source/src/eccodes/CMakeLists.txt	2025-07-19 16:36:56.908394153 +0200
+@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ ecbuild_add_library( TARGET    eccodes
                       PRIVATE_LIBS ${ECCODES_EXTRA_LIBRARIES} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${AEC_LIBRARIES} ${PNG_LIBRARIES}
                       PUBLIC_LIBS  ${CMATH_LIBRARIES} ${THREADS_LIBRARIES}
                       TEMPLATES ${eccodes_extra_src_files}
diff --git a/eccodes.spec b/eccodes.spec
index bed4797..32375c8 100644
--- a/eccodes.spec
+++ b/eccodes.spec
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           eccodes
-Version:        2.44.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        2.42.0
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Summary:        WMO data format decoding and encoding
 
 # force the shared libraries to have these so versions
@@ -260,8 +260,6 @@ tar xf %SOURCE1
 popd
 
 %build
-# TODO: Please submit an issue to upstream (rhbz#2380563)
-export CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
 
 #-- The following features are disabled by default and not switched on:
 #
@@ -461,15 +459,6 @@ ctest3 -V %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %changelog
 
-* Mon Nov 10 2025 Cristian Le <git@lecris.dev> - 2.44.0-2
-- Allow to build with CMake 4.0 (rhbz#2380563)
-
-* Fri Nov 07 2025 Jos de Kloe <josdekloe@gmail.com> - 2.44.0-1
-- Update to 2.44.0
-
-* Fri Aug 22 2025 Orion Poplawski <orion@nwra.com> - 2.42.0-6
-- Rebuild for netcdf 4.9.3 soname bump
-
 * Mon Aug 11 2025 Jos de Kloe <josdekloe@gmail.com> - 2.42.0-5
 - Forgot to update the changelog date for the previous commit, so fixed this
   with this update.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4dc5dc6..6cabd92 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 SHA512 (eccodes_test_data_20250202.tar.gz) = 8b4c7159dd7ed0e1e69068ec7dcabe94064f0d2abf9eac4fca2a9c730d500999e8edf1e7eeebba6fb12ae99b223c1b0843e31414538333c52f2508cb2d410151
 SHA512 (eccodes-2.40.0-Source.tar.gz) = 39b09da398a864888f1b7da867adae63da9e512a865807c1dd0f4b76e242c46d6ec75f7db3a554c01c4fb60dd9677cd8b77bc03dac89931cbdf461c607b100c8
 SHA512 (eccodes-2.42.0-Source.tar.gz) = 205246b250762ab6e7ac3050726ac5ce67ab689c8c393b153e7c084fb71edc40d64ee04e2fb32b3ad2a1426e65581126c0c8288e9088c27a7468f6b534f29b58
-SHA512 (eccodes-2.44.0-Source.tar.gz) = 63f81db07103ab3c6c0497ca3d0bae5b8a0841ed83a2b88831ddce756489a84aa394af7673c1438e2ea7a55107970cf87b8222da31321ef70ecc55cc99a3ddf5