diff --git a/python-tesserocr.changes b/python-tesserocr.changes
index 0599bcc..f0e8838 100644
--- a/python-tesserocr.changes
+++ b/python-tesserocr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  9 20:40:28 UTC 2025 - Mia Herkt <mia@0x0.st>
+
+- Drop unpin-cython.patch
+  but make version range explicit in BuildRequires
+- Update to 2.9.0
+  * fix: update test, make it pass
+    gh#sirfz/tesserocr#364
+  * Improve stub file
+    gh#sirfz/tesserocr#371
+  * Convert more exceptions
+    gh#sirfz/tesserocr#365
+  * Drop python2 support
+    gh#sirfz/tesserocr#377
+  * All words error handling
+    gh#sirfz/tesserocr#378
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug  4 14:15:13 UTC 2025 - Felix Stegmeier <felix.stegmeier@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-tesserocr.spec b/python-tesserocr.spec
index f0cae20..38d0c80 100644
--- a/python-tesserocr.spec
+++ b/python-tesserocr.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-tesserocr
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2025 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2025 SUSE LLC and contributors
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -18,16 +18,13 @@
 
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-tesserocr
-Version:        2.8.0
+Version:        2.9.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A Python wrapper around tesseract-ocr
 License:        MIT
-Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/t/tesserocr/tesserocr-%{version}.tar.gz
-#PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE unpin-cython.patch
-Patch:          unpin-cython.patch
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython3 < 3.2.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Pillow}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pip}
@@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ GIL while processing an image in tesseract.
 %fdupes %{buildroot}
 
 %check
-export TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tessdata
+export TESSDATA_PREFIX=%{_datadir}/tessdata
 %python_exec setup.py develop --user
 # test_LSTM_choices failure: https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/issues/214
 # https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/issues/295
diff --git a/tesserocr-2.8.0.tar.gz b/tesserocr-2.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c991e5..0000000
--- a/tesserocr-2.8.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:be518d1b1b5ff54c11aada1e0fd12942509ea70581e0a8b39a2a473a0b2dbd36
-size 72564
diff --git a/tesserocr-2.9.0.tar.gz b/tesserocr-2.9.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cd5a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tesserocr-2.9.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:4caa6540f6359189e63be2f1cc4d3789130075f4de97eda8205f4f47de2fc1cf
+size 71976
diff --git a/unpin-cython.patch b/unpin-cython.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ae8faa0..0000000
--- a/unpin-cython.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Index: tesserocr-2.8.0/setup.py
-===================================================================
---- tesserocr-2.8.0.orig/setup.py
-+++ tesserocr-2.8.0/setup.py
-@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ setup(
-     cmdclass={"build_ext": my_build_ext},
-     ext_modules=[make_extension()],
-     test_suite="tests",
--    setup_requires=["Cython>=0.23,<3.1.0"],
-+    setup_requires=["Cython>=0.23"],
-     packages=["tesserocr"],
-     package_dir={"tesserocr": "tesserocr"},
- )