diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 042ea88..477366a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ python-Levenshtein-0.10.1.tar.bz2
 /Levenshtein-0.23.0.tar.gz
 /Levenshtein-0.26.0.tar.gz
 /Levenshtein-0.26.1.tar.gz
+/Levenshtein-0.27.1.tar.gz
+/Levenshtein-0.27.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/72.patch b/72.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e6af10..0000000
--- a/72.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From f5e782d3efd640be48c59f2b7efa4e19466476a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Cristian Le <git@lecris.dev>
-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:20:27 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] fix: pyproject.toml metadata
-
----
- pyproject.toml | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
-index 595180d..e424f68 100644
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ classifiers=[
-   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
-   "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)",
- ]
-+
-+[project.urls]
- Homepage = "https://github.com/rapidfuzz/Levenshtein"
- Documentation = "https://rapidfuzz.github.io/Levenshtein/"
- Repository = "https://github.com/rapidfuzz/Levenshtein.git"
diff --git a/levenshtein-0.27.1-cython-cpp.patch b/levenshtein-0.27.1-cython-cpp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78710f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/levenshtein-0.27.1-cython-cpp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up a/src/Levenshtein/CMakeLists.txt b/src/Levenshtein/CMakeLists.txt
+--- a/src/Levenshtein/CMakeLists.txt	2026-01-10 17:00:11.456685025 -0500
++++ b/src/Levenshtein/CMakeLists.txt	2026-01-10 17:00:37.252954218 -0500
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ function(create_cython_target _name)
+       MAIN_DEPENDENCY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${_name}.pyx"
+       VERBATIM
+       COMMAND
+-        Python::Interpreter -m cython "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${_name}.pyx"
++        Python::Interpreter -m cython --cplus "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${_name}.pyx"
+         --output-file "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_name}.cxx")
+ 
+     set(${_name}
diff --git a/python-Levenshtein.spec b/python-Levenshtein.spec
index 58ce4c2..61fdd25 100644
--- a/python-Levenshtein.spec
+++ b/python-Levenshtein.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %global srcname Levenshtein
 
-%global forgeurl https://github.com/maxbachmann/%{srcname}
-Version:        0.26.1
+%global forgeurl https://github.com/rapidfuzz/%{srcname}
+Version:        0.27.3
 %forgemeta
 
 Name:         python-%{srcname}
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ License:      GPL-2.0-or-later
 URL:          %{forgeurl}
 
 Source0:      %{forgesource}
-
-Patch:        https://github.com/rapidfuzz/Levenshtein/pull/72.patch
+Patch0:       levenshtein-0.27.1-cython-cpp.patch
 
 BuildRequires: cmake
 BuildRequires: gcc
@@ -38,9 +37,12 @@ Summary:  %{summary}
 %description -n python3-%{srcname} %_description
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n %{srcname}-%{version}
-# Levenshtein can build under older Cython successfully
-sed 's/Cython>=3.0.0[ab0-9]\+/Cython>=0.29.26/' -i pyproject.toml
+%autosetup -n %{srcname}-%{version} -p1
+# Remove Cython's upper constraint
+sed -i '/Cython>=3\.[0-9]\+\./s/,\s*<3\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9a-z]*[0-9]*//' pyproject.toml
+
+# Open up the rapidfuzz version constraint.
+sed -i 's/rapidfuzz 3.2.0/rapidfuzz 3.2...<4/' CMakeLists.txt
 
 %generate_buildrequires
 %pyproject_buildrequires
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ export SKBUILD_CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
 
 %files -n python3-%{srcname} -f %{pyproject_files}
 %doc README.md
-%license COPYING
+%license LICENSE
 
 
 %changelog
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index c97b8af..d4344d7 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Levenshtein-0.26.1.tar.gz) = 589b1f404108f488caf880063f20ee9c6a2033b0a2cd819352bf15e285ea8537c1dc8117de70679f720fd3da47546f7e0e5c620e4da8cf09bf8df9b119e6abc9
+SHA512 (Levenshtein-0.27.3.tar.gz) = 1102d6421066ea59c821416d80eec99044fd574659db2e063a5564249afddac097e740788b8d0f5c1c3c72c1a4d3ae94f027ac8609f5ad1cadde378aaee9bf43