diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5ad9ba3..fd4950b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-/pycparser-*.tar.gz
+/release_v2.09.1.tar.gz
+/release_v2.10.tar.gz
+/release_v2.14.tar.gz
+/release_v2.19.tar.gz
+/release_v2.20.tar.gz
+/release_v2.22.tar.gz
diff --git a/8c219ec6.patch b/8c219ec6.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c4d7fb5..0000000
--- a/8c219ec6.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From 8c219ec62ea3bf835c473954f30ea9b1202069eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:18:23 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Drop an unneeded direct build depndency on wheel (#597)
-
-- wheel is not needed to build sdists
- - with setuptools 71+, wheel is not needed to build wheels either
- - older setuptools would communicate the dependency on wheel themselves
----
- pyproject.toml | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
-index 5b9d7d38..9bc8da7f 100644
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- [build-system]
--requires = ["setuptools>=69", "wheel"]
-+requires = ["setuptools>=69"]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
- 
- [project]
diff --git a/pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py b/pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
similarity index 95%
rename from pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
rename to pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
index 090b517..20fcb06 100644
--- a/pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
+++ b/pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sys.path.extend(['.', '..'])
 import sys
 import os
 
-boiler_plate = 'sys.path.extend([".", ".."])\n'
+boiler_plate = "sys.path.extend(['.', '..'])\n"
 d = sys.argv[1]
 for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(d):
     for i in files:
diff --git a/python-pycparser.spec b/python-pycparser.spec
index d4fde03..8d55a90 100644
--- a/python-pycparser.spec
+++ b/python-pycparser.spec
@@ -2,17 +2,19 @@
 
 Name:           python-pycparser
 Summary:        C parser and AST generator written in Python
-Version:        3.00
+Version:        2.22
 Release:        %autorelease
+
+# pycparser: BSD-3-Clause
+# bundled ply: BSD-3-Clause
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 
-URL:            https://github.com/eliben/pycparser
-Source0:        %{url}/archive/release_v%{version}/pycparser-release_v%{version}.tar.gz
-Source1:        pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
+URL:            http://github.com/eliben/pycparser
+Source0:        %{url}/archive/release_v%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
 
-# Drop redundant BuildRequires for python3-wheel
-# https://github.com/fedora-eln/eln/issues/284
-Patch:          https://github.com/eliben/pycparser/commit/8c219ec6.patch
+# Remove unsafe dead code (CVE-2025-56005) from the bundled ply
+Patch:          remove-ply-unsafe-pickle-code.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -31,6 +33,12 @@ need to parse C source code.
 %package -n python3-pycparser
 Summary:        %{summary}
 
+# pycaparser bundles ply,
+# which is the preferred upstream for both upstreams.
+# See https://github.com/eliben/pycparser/pull/589
+%global         ply_version 3.9
+Provides:       bundled(python3dist(ply)) = %{ply_version}
+
 %description -n python3-pycparser
 pycparser is a complete parser for the C language, written in pure Python.
 It is a module designed to be easily integrated into applications that
@@ -47,7 +55,7 @@ need to parse C source code.
 
 %build
 pushd pycparser
-%{python3} _ast_gen.py
+%{python3} _build_tables.py
 popd
 %pyproject_wheel
 
@@ -61,9 +69,9 @@ export %{py3_test_envvars}
 %if %{with tests}
 %{python3} -m unittest discover
 %endif
+%{python3} -c 'import pycparser; assert pycparser.ply.__version__ == "%{ply_version}"'
  
 %files -n python3-pycparser -f %{pyproject_files}
-%doc README.rst
 %doc examples
 
 %changelog
diff --git a/remove-ply-unsafe-pickle-code.patch b/remove-ply-unsafe-pickle-code.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79f77b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remove-ply-unsafe-pickle-code.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+From a8e7cb61ccd5773c390b69112c24cbb6a20ec63c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:19:40 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove unsafe pickle code from bundled ply (CVE-2025-56005)
+
+---
+ pycparser/ply/yacc.py | 73 ++-----------------------------------------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pycparser/ply/yacc.py b/pycparser/ply/yacc.py
+index 20b4f28..6b38a30 100644
+--- a/pycparser/ply/yacc.py
++++ b/pycparser/ply/yacc.py
+@@ -90,8 +90,6 @@ yaccdevel   = False            # Set to True if developing yacc.  This turns off
+ 
+ resultlimit = 40               # Size limit of results when running in debug mode.
+ 
+-pickle_protocol = 0            # Protocol to use when writing pickle files
+-
+ # String type-checking compatibility
+ if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+     string_types = basestring
+@@ -1995,33 +1993,6 @@ class LRTable(object):
+         self.lr_method = parsetab._lr_method
+         return parsetab._lr_signature
+ 
+-    def read_pickle(self, filename):
+-        try:
+-            import cPickle as pickle
+-        except ImportError:
+-            import pickle
+-
+-        if not os.path.exists(filename):
+-          raise ImportError
+-
+-        in_f = open(filename, 'rb')
+-
+-        tabversion = pickle.load(in_f)
+-        if tabversion != __tabversion__:
+-            raise VersionError('yacc table file version is out of date')
+-        self.lr_method = pickle.load(in_f)
+-        signature      = pickle.load(in_f)
+-        self.lr_action = pickle.load(in_f)
+-        self.lr_goto   = pickle.load(in_f)
+-        productions    = pickle.load(in_f)
+-
+-        self.lr_productions = []
+-        for p in productions:
+-            self.lr_productions.append(MiniProduction(*p))
+-
+-        in_f.close()
+-        return signature
+-
+     # Bind all production function names to callable objects in pdict
+     def bind_callables(self, pdict):
+         for p in self.lr_productions:
+@@ -2839,32 +2810,6 @@ del _lr_goto_items
+             raise
+ 
+ 
+-    # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-    # pickle_table()
+-    #
+-    # This function pickles the LR parsing tables to a supplied file object
+-    # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
+-    def pickle_table(self, filename, signature=''):
+-        try:
+-            import cPickle as pickle
+-        except ImportError:
+-            import pickle
+-        with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
+-            pickle.dump(__tabversion__, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-            pickle.dump(self.lr_method, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-            pickle.dump(signature, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-            pickle.dump(self.lr_action, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-            pickle.dump(self.lr_goto, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-
+-            outp = []
+-            for p in self.lr_productions:
+-                if p.func:
+-                    outp.append((p.str, p.name, p.len, p.func, os.path.basename(p.file), p.line))
+-                else:
+-                    outp.append((str(p), p.name, p.len, None, None, None))
+-            pickle.dump(outp, outf, pickle_protocol)
+-
+ # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ #                            === INTROSPECTION ===
+ #
+@@ -3213,7 +3158,7 @@ class ParserReflect(object):
+ 
+ def yacc(method='LALR', debug=yaccdebug, module=None, tabmodule=tab_module, start=None,
+          check_recursion=True, optimize=False, write_tables=True, debugfile=debug_file,
+-         outputdir=None, debuglog=None, errorlog=None, picklefile=None):
++         outputdir=None, debuglog=None, errorlog=None):
+ 
+     if tabmodule is None:
+         tabmodule = tab_module
+@@ -3221,10 +3166,6 @@ def yacc(method='LALR', debug=yaccdebug, module=None, tabmodule=tab_module, star
+     # Reference to the parsing method of the last built parser
+     global parse
+ 
+-    # If pickling is enabled, table files are not created
+-    if picklefile:
+-        write_tables = 0
+-
+     if errorlog is None:
+         errorlog = PlyLogger(sys.stderr)
+ 
+@@ -3281,10 +3222,7 @@ def yacc(method='LALR', debug=yaccdebug, module=None, tabmodule=tab_module, star
+     # Read the tables
+     try:
+         lr = LRTable()
+-        if picklefile:
+-            read_signature = lr.read_pickle(picklefile)
+-        else:
+-            read_signature = lr.read_table(tabmodule)
++        read_signature = lr.read_table(tabmodule)
+         if optimize or (read_signature == signature):
+             try:
+                 lr.bind_callables(pinfo.pdict)
+@@ -3479,13 +3417,6 @@ def yacc(method='LALR', debug=yaccdebug, module=None, tabmodule=tab_module, star
+         except IOError as e:
+             errorlog.warning("Couldn't create %r. %s" % (tabmodule, e))
+ 
+-    # Write a pickled version of the tables
+-    if picklefile:
+-        try:
+-            lr.pickle_table(picklefile, signature)
+-        except IOError as e:
+-            errorlog.warning("Couldn't create %r. %s" % (picklefile, e))
+-
+     # Build the parser
+     lr.bind_callables(pinfo.pdict)
+     parser = LRParser(lr, pinfo.error_func)
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 35ce47f..14d685c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pycparser-release_v3.00.tar.gz) = e3b877aebedd49616f2144812e385de973add7bf358cf908fecd210149e9c2da563ffd27b09e915ebbf0f159fec83de76c7f7c27d0baa1282f75c50beb666590
+SHA512 (release_v2.22.tar.gz) = 1c5be2b83c0a892cafa55a2595942d7048994772dc0fc71d2943004b4198d939c0bf2a164d763d94fe11d532e49371c59c1cf4037c32dab8d3cf0c553a8de64a