diff --git a/drop-m2r-dependency.patch b/drop-m2r-dependency.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e9b7838..0000000
--- a/drop-m2r-dependency.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-CHANGELOG.md is anyway missing in the sdist tarball
-
---- python-binary-memcached-0.31.1/setup.py
-+++ python-binary-memcached-0.31.1/setup.py
-@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
- import sys
- 
- from setuptools import setup
--from m2r import convert
- 
- 
- def read(filename):
-@@ -19,8 +18,8 @@
-     author="Jayson Reis",
-     author_email="santosdosreis@gmail.com",
-     description="A pure python module to access memcached via its binary protocol with SASL auth support",
--    long_description="{0}\n{1}".format(
--        read("README.rst"), convert(read("CHANGELOG.md"))
-+    long_description="{0}".format(
-+        read("README.rst")
-     ),
-     url="https://github.com/jaysonsantos/python-binary-memcached",
-     packages=["bmemcached", "bmemcached.client"],
diff --git a/python-binary-memcached-0.31.1.tar.gz b/python-binary-memcached-0.31.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 1854ce2..0000000
--- a/python-binary-memcached-0.31.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:de4056f00a15d054dcf1af87d6cc9564876699e52da954c3ef44e8c5753d4050
-size 95924
diff --git a/python-binary-memcached-0.31.2.tar.gz b/python-binary-memcached-0.31.2.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96a5ac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-binary-memcached-0.31.2.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:290f70451e277df6a39aa0eea3cb6ca2eefcf5d601f957cf2ec1d353d7676c03
+size 96474
diff --git a/python-python-binary-memcached.changes b/python-python-binary-memcached.changes
index 08ad811..fbb8d69 100644
--- a/python-python-binary-memcached.changes
+++ b/python-python-binary-memcached.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May  3 09:07:48 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 0.31.2:
+  * Remove setup's.py dependency on m2r
+- drop drop-m2r-dependency.patch (upstream)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 30 12:19:52 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-python-binary-memcached.spec b/python-python-binary-memcached.spec
index b098fce..d493889 100644
--- a/python-python-binary-memcached.spec
+++ b/python-python-binary-memcached.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-python-binary-memcached
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-python-binary-memcached
-Version:        0.31.1
+Version:        0.31.2
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Access memcached via its binary protocol with SASL auth support
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/jaysonsantos/python-binary-memcached
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/python-binary-memcached/python-binary-memcached-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1:         drop-m2r-dependency.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six}
@@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ A pure python module to access memcached via its binary protocol with SASL auth
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n python-binary-memcached-%{version}
-%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %python_build