diff --git a/.fmf/version b/.fmf/version
deleted file mode 100644
index d00491f..0000000
--- a/.fmf/version
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1
diff --git a/hyphen.spec b/hyphen.spec
index 29ec558..d4abef9 100644
--- a/hyphen.spec
+++ b/hyphen.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 Name:      hyphen
 Summary:   A text hyphenation library
 Version:   2.8.8
-Release:   27%{?dist}
+Release:   18%{?dist}
 Source:    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hunspell/hyphen-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL:       http://hunspell.sf.net
-License:   GPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
+License:   GPLv2 or LGPLv2+ or MPLv1.1
 BuildRequires: perl-interpreter, patch, autoconf, automake, libtool
-%ifarch %{valgrind_arches}
+# s390 lacks valgrind support
+# no working valgrind built for MIPS yet
+# tests with valgrind fail on arm
+# tests with valgrind fail on ppc64le
+%ifnarch s390 %{arm} %{mips} ppc64le
 BuildRequires: valgrind
 %endif
 BuildRequires: make
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %check
 make check
-%ifarch %{valgrind_arches}
+%ifnarch s390 %{arm} %{mips} ppc64le
 VALGRIND=memcheck make check
 %endif
 
@@ -71,33 +75,6 @@ popd
 %{_bindir}/substrings.pl
 
 %changelog
-* Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-27
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-26
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jul 18 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-25
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Mar 06 2024 David Abdurachmanov <davidlt@rivosinc.com> - 2.8.8-24
-- Properly check valgrind arches
-
-* Wed Jan 24 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-23
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sat Jan 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-22
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-21
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 23 2023 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 2.8.8-20
-- migrated to SPDX license
-
-* Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-19
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
-
 * Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.8-18
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/plans/hyphen.fmf b/plans/hyphen.fmf
deleted file mode 100644
index c1627f9..0000000
--- a/plans/hyphen.fmf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-summary: Basic smoke test
-discover:
-    how: fmf
-execute:
-    how: tmt
diff --git a/tests/main.fmf b/tests/main.fmf
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f659d9..0000000
--- a/tests/main.fmf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-test: ./runtests.sh
-duration: 10m
-framework: beakerlib
-require:
-  - hyphen
-  - autoconf
-  - automake
-  - libtool
-  - m4
-  - gcc
-  - sed
-  - make
-  - rpm-build
diff --git a/tests/runtests.sh b/tests/runtests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 24459d5..0000000
--- a/tests/runtests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-. /usr/share/beakerlib/beakerlib.sh || exit 1
-
-NAME=hyphen
-
-rlJournalStart
-    rlPhaseStartSetup
-        rlAssertRpm ${NAME}
-        rlShowPackageVersion ${NAME}
-        rlRun -t -l "VERSION=$(rpm -q ${NAME} --queryformat='%{version}')" 0 "Get VERSION"
-        rlRun "tmp=\$(mktemp -d)" 0 "Create tmp directory"
-        rlRun "pushd $tmp"
-        rlFetchSrcForInstalled "${NAME}"
-        rlRun "rpm --define '_topdir $tmp' -i *src.rpm"
-        rlRun -t -l "mkdir BUILD" 0 "Creating BUILD directory"
-        rlRun -t -l "rpmbuild --noclean --nodeps --define '_topdir $tmp' -bp $tmp/SPECS/*spec"
-        if [ -d BUILD/${NAME}-${VERSION}-build ]; then
-            rlRun -t -l "pushd BUILD/${NAME}-${VERSION}-build/${NAME}-${VERSION}"
-        else
-            rlRun -t -l "pushd BUILD/${NAME}-${VERSION}"
-        fi
-    rlPhaseEnd
-
-    rlPhaseStartTest
-        rlRun "set -o pipefail"
-	rlRun "autoreconf -i"
-	rlRun "automake --foreign -Wall"
-	rlRun "./configure && make && make check"
-        rlRun "retval=$?"
-        rlRun "echo $retval"
-        rlRun "popd" 0
-    rlPhaseEnd
-
-    rlPhaseStartCleanup
-        rlRun "popd"
-        rlRun "rm -r $tmp" 0 "Remove tmp directory"
-    rlPhaseEnd
-rlJournalEnd
-