diff --git a/python-tesserocr.changes b/python-tesserocr.changes
index fa5450e..0599bcc 100644
--- a/python-tesserocr.changes
+++ b/python-tesserocr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  4 14:15:13 UTC 2025 - Felix Stegmeier <felix.stegmeier@suse.com>
+
+- add unpin-cython.patch to unpin cython version
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 10 15:10:04 UTC 2025 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-tesserocr.spec b/python-tesserocr.spec
index c2a5890..f0cae20 100644
--- a/python-tesserocr.spec
+++ b/python-tesserocr.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ 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 Pillow}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ execution when used with Python's threading module by releasing the
 GIL while processing an image in tesseract.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n tesserocr-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n tesserocr-%{version}
 
 %build
 %pyproject_wheel
diff --git a/unpin-cython.patch b/unpin-cython.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae8faa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unpin-cython.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+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"},
+ )