diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fd4950b..5ad9ba3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1 @@
-/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
+/pycparser-*.tar.gz
diff --git a/8c219ec6.patch b/8c219ec6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4d7fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8c219ec6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+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-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py b/pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
similarity index 95%
rename from pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
rename to pycparser-3.00-remove-relative-sys-path.py
index 20fcb06..090b517 100644
--- a/pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
+++ b/pycparser-3.00-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 38973f3..d4fde03 100644
--- a/python-pycparser.spec
+++ b/python-pycparser.spec
@@ -2,16 +2,17 @@
 
 Name:           python-pycparser
 Summary:        C parser and AST generator written in Python
-Version:        2.22
+Version:        3.00
 Release:        %autorelease
-
-# pycparser: BSD-3-Clause
-# bundled ply: BSD-3-Clause
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 
-URL:            http://github.com/eliben/pycparser
-Source0:        %{url}/archive/release_v%{version}.tar.gz
-Source1:        pycparser-0.91.1-remove-relative-sys-path.py
+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
+
+# Drop redundant BuildRequires for python3-wheel
+# https://github.com/fedora-eln/eln/issues/284
+Patch:          https://github.com/eliben/pycparser/commit/8c219ec6.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -30,12 +31,6 @@ 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
@@ -52,7 +47,7 @@ need to parse C source code.
 
 %build
 pushd pycparser
-%{python3} _build_tables.py
+%{python3} _ast_gen.py
 popd
 %pyproject_wheel
 
@@ -66,9 +61,9 @@ 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/sources b/sources
index 14d685c..35ce47f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (release_v2.22.tar.gz) = 1c5be2b83c0a892cafa55a2595942d7048994772dc0fc71d2943004b4198d939c0bf2a164d763d94fe11d532e49371c59c1cf4037c32dab8d3cf0c553a8de64a
+SHA512 (pycparser-release_v3.00.tar.gz) = e3b877aebedd49616f2144812e385de973add7bf358cf908fecd210149e9c2da563ffd27b09e915ebbf0f159fec83de76c7f7c27d0baa1282f75c50beb666590