diff --git a/ignore-bleach-deprecation-test.patch b/ignore-bleach-deprecation-test.patch
index 97c0a21..0929101 100644
--- a/ignore-bleach-deprecation-test.patch
+++ b/ignore-bleach-deprecation-test.patch
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-Index: nbconvert-6.5.0/pyproject.toml
+Index: nbconvert-6.5.3/pyproject.toml
 ===================================================================
---- nbconvert-6.5.0.orig/pyproject.toml
-+++ nbconvert-6.5.0/pyproject.toml
-@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ filterwarnings = [
+--- nbconvert-6.5.3.orig/pyproject.toml
++++ nbconvert-6.5.3/pyproject.toml
+@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ filterwarnings = [
      "ignore:unclosed <socket.socket:ResourceWarning",
      "ignore:unclosed event loop:ResourceWarning",
      "ignore:There is no current event loop:DeprecationWarning",
--
 +    "ignore:Support for bleach <5 will be removed in a future version of nbconvert:DeprecationWarning",
  ]
diff --git a/nbconvert-6.5.0.tar.gz b/nbconvert-6.5.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bc7756..0000000
--- a/nbconvert-6.5.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:223e46e27abe8596b8aed54301fadbba433b7ffea8196a68fd7b1ff509eee99d
-size 908377
diff --git a/nbconvert-6.5.3.tar.gz b/nbconvert-6.5.3.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61db98a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nbconvert-6.5.3.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:10ed693c4cfd3c63583c87ca5c3a2f6ed874145103595f3824efcc8dfcb7522c
+size 910597
diff --git a/nbconvert-vendorize-mistune.patch b/nbconvert-vendorize-mistune.patch
index 74a4cb8..1efda3c 100644
--- a/nbconvert-vendorize-mistune.patch
+++ b/nbconvert-vendorize-mistune.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Index: nbconvert-6.5.0/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
+Index: nbconvert-6.5.3/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
 ===================================================================
---- nbconvert-6.5.0.orig/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
-+++ nbconvert-6.5.0/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
+--- nbconvert-6.5.3.orig/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
++++ nbconvert-6.5.3/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
 @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ except ImportError:
      from cgi import escape as html_escape
  
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Index: nbconvert-6.5.0/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py
  from pygments import highlight
  from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
  from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name
-Index: nbconvert-6.5.0/setup.py
+Index: nbconvert-6.5.3/setup.py
 ===================================================================
---- nbconvert-6.5.0.orig/setup.py
-+++ nbconvert-6.5.0/setup.py
+--- nbconvert-6.5.3.orig/setup.py
++++ nbconvert-6.5.3/setup.py
 @@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ setup_args["install_requires"] = [
      "jupyter_core>=4.7",
      "jupyterlab_pygments",
diff --git a/python-nbconvert.changes b/python-nbconvert.changes
index 60a6922..a94ac6a 100644
--- a/python-nbconvert.changes
+++ b/python-nbconvert.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 11 14:01:34 UTC 2022 - Arun Persaud <arun@gmx.de>
+
+- specfile
+  * remove skip python 2, since we require python >= 3.7 anyway
+  * updates patches
+  * require lxml
+
+- update to version 6.5.3:
+  * Fix title (#1833)
+
+- changes from version 6.5.2:
+  * escape_html: prevent escaping quotes on widgets JSON reprs (#1829)
+  * Fix linters (#1828)
+  * pre-commit-ci[bot] authored and SylvainCorlay committed 2 days ago
+  * Remove downloaded CSS from repository
+
+- changes from version 6.5.1:
+  * Fix pre-commit
+  * Fix tests
+  * Run black and prettier
+  * Run test on 6.x branch
+  * Convert input to string prior to escape HTML
+  * Check input type before escaping
+  * GHSL-2021-1017, GHSL-2021-1020, GHSL-2021-1021
+  * GHSL-2021-1026, GHSL-2021-1025
+  * GHSL-2021-1024
+  * GHSL-2021-1023
+  * GHSL-2021-1022
+  * GHSL-2021-1019
+  * GHSL-2021-1018
+  * GHSL-2021-1027, GHSL-2021-1028
+  * GHSL-2021-1014, GHSL-2021-1015, GHSL-2021-1016
+  * GHSL-2021-1013
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun  5 11:29:55 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-nbconvert.spec b/python-nbconvert.spec
index 23ffb09..c6863eb 100644
--- a/python-nbconvert.spec
+++ b/python-nbconvert.spec
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@
 %bcond_with libalternatives
 %endif
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python3-%{**}}
-%define skip_python2 1
 Name:           python-nbconvert%{psuffix}
-Version:        6.5.0
+Version:        6.5.3
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Conversion of Jupyter Notebooks
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@ Patch1:         nbconvert-vendorize-mistune.patch
 Patch2:         ignore-bleach-deprecation-test.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.7}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module beautifulsoup4}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module lxml}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module packaging}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Requires:       python-defusedxml
 Requires:       python-entrypoints >= 0.2.2
 Requires:       python-jupyter-core >= 4.7
 Requires:       python-jupyterlab-pygments
+Requires:       python-lxml
 Requires:       python-nbclient >= 0.5
 Requires:       python-nbformat >= 5.1
 Requires:       python-packaging