diff --git a/0001-Skip-tests-that-fail-on-s390x.patch b/0001-Skip-tests-that-fail-on-s390x.patch
index 82fef25..c9d5208 100644
--- a/0001-Skip-tests-that-fail-on-s390x.patch
+++ b/0001-Skip-tests-that-fail-on-s390x.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 7da961d821fc48a87182f81f805573acd7122457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 35a394b3806687e4be0e369fe293b98e939deb07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:58:59 +0100
 Subject: [PATCH] Skip tests that fail on s390x
@@ -173,3 +173,6 @@ index f845a33e16..050820c2a5 100644
      return theSuite
  
  
+-- 
+2.39.1
+
diff --git a/0002-Relax-dependency-on-blosc2.patch b/0002-Relax-dependency-on-blosc2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c7d82b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-Relax-dependency-on-blosc2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 6dad0d61386d69833ca73098b533faa6b01a31b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 18:54:14 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Relax dependency on blosc2
+
+As specified before, it translates to "blosc2 >= 2" + "blosc2 < 2.1",
+which is obviously not satisfied by current blosc2 = 2.2.2.
+---
+ pyproject.toml   | 2 +-
+ requirements.txt | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index 022614ad25..eb16091a6c 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ requires = [
+     "packaging",
+     "py-cpuinfo",
+     "Cython >=0.29.21",
+-    "blosc2 ~=2.0.0"
++    "blosc2 >=2.0.0"
+ ]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
+index 8d2f5d2456..99e7db38dc 100644
+--- a/requirements.txt
++++ b/requirements.txt
+@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ numpy>=1.19.0
+ numexpr>=2.6.2
+ # blosc2 wheel is actually only needed when compiling on conda envs.
+ # Otherwise, lib comes bundled in PyTables wheels (but it doesn't hurt either).
+-blosc2~=2.0.0
++blosc2>=2.0.0
+ packaging
+ py-cpuinfo
+-- 
+2.40.1
+
diff --git a/0002-Skip-test-that-fails-on-amd64.patch b/0002-Skip-test-that-fails-on-amd64.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6838f12..0000000
--- a/0002-Skip-test-that-fails-on-amd64.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 1657d4894d0450a98265685338ae3b63aa75c5d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:52:36 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Skip test that fails on amd64
-
----
- tables/tests/test_expression.py | 7 ++-----
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/tables/tests/test_expression.py b/tables/tests/test_expression.py
-index 502ae42b74..ee8edf340b 100644
---- a/tables/tests/test_expression.py
-+++ b/tables/tests/test_expression.py
-@@ -892,11 +892,8 @@ class FunctionsTestCase(common.TempFileMixin, common.PyTablesTestCase):
-         expr = tb.Expr("sin(a1) * sqrt(b1)")
-         r1 = expr.eval()
-         r2 = np.sin(a) * np.sqrt(b)
--        if common.verbose:
--            print("Computed expression:", repr(r1), r1.dtype)
--            print("Should look like:", repr(r2), r2.dtype)
--        self.assertTrue(common.areArraysEqual(r1, r2),
--                        "Evaluate is returning a wrong value.")
-+        print("Computed expression:", repr(r1), r1.dtype)
-+        print("Should look like:", repr(r2), r2.dtype)
- 
- 
- # Test for EArrays with maindim != 0
diff --git a/always-use-blosc.diff b/always-use-blosc.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e3f298..0000000
--- a/always-use-blosc.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- PyTables-v.3.2.0/tables/utilsextension.pyx~	2015-05-06 10:10:43.000000000 -0400
-+++ PyTables-v.3.2.0/tables/utilsextension.pyx	2015-05-07 19:03:11.439144042 -0400
-@@ -276,11 +276,6 @@
- # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661286).
- # This function has been written by Julian Taylor <jtaylor@ubuntu.com>.
- def _arch_without_blosc():
--  import platform
--  arch = platform.machine().lower()
--  for a in ("arm", "sparc", "mips", "aarch64"):
--    if a in arch:
--      return True
-   return False
- 
- if blosc_version and blosc_version < ('1', '4') and _arch_without_blosc():
diff --git a/python-tables.spec b/python-tables.spec
index a5d6a49..1a721b4 100644
--- a/python-tables.spec
+++ b/python-tables.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 Summary:        HDF5 support in Python
 Name:           python-tables
-Version:        3.7.0
+Version:        3.8.0
 Release:        %autorelease
 #Source0:        https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/archive/%{commit}/PyTables-%{commit}.tar.gz
 Source0:        https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/archive/v%{version}/python-tables-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ Source0:        https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/archive/v%{version}/python-
 %global manual_version 3.3.0
 
 Source1:        https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/releases/download/v%{manual_version}/pytablesmanual-%{manual_version}.pdf
-Patch0:         always-use-blosc.diff
 Patch1:         0001-Skip-tests-that-fail-on-s390x.patch
-Patch2:         0002-Skip-test-that-fails-on-amd64.patch
+Patch2:         0002-Relax-dependency-on-blosc2.patch
 Patch3:         0003-python3.12-cython-fix-slice-indexing.patch
 
 License:        BSD
@@ -26,9 +25,11 @@ URL:            https://www.pytables.org
 BuildRequires:  hdf5-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  bzip2-devel
 BuildRequires:  lzo-devel
-BuildRequires:  blosc-devel >= 1.5.2
+BuildRequires:  blosc-devel
+BuildRequires:  blosc2-devel
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-devel
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-setuptools
+BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-blosc2
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-Cython >= 0.13
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-numpy
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-numexpr >= 2.4
@@ -59,21 +60,25 @@ The %{name}-doc package contains the documentation for %{name}.
 
 %prep
 %setup -n PyTables-%{version} -q
-%patch0 -p1
 
 # https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/735
 %ifarch s390x
-%patch1 -p1
+%patch 1 -p1
 %endif
 
-%patch2 -p1
-%patch3 -p1
+%patch 2 -p1
+%patch 3 -p1
 
 cp -a %{SOURCE1} pytablesmanual.pdf
 
 # Make sure we are not using anything from the bundled blosc by mistake
 find c-blosc -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name hdf5 -prune -o -exec rm -r {} +
 
+# circumvent the broken attempt to detect library location
+sed -r -i \
+  '/def get_blosc2_directories\(\):/a \ \ \ \ return "%{_includedir}","%{_libdir}"' \
+  setup.py
+
 %build
 %py3_build
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3b2d608..02050b5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
+SHA512 (python-tables-3.8.0.tar.gz) = 552d0217cebbf6342f97215caae4519daa88dd333c190da298fb2d583e2350456c63d7e4c37b0019e9bab714fd7ea41361207a06ab4bf13f8255dcce3f0712f5
 SHA512 (pytablesmanual-3.3.0.pdf) = beb068a301e20370fdab9f942bed271b94872f409087cba8f7127967a51e45a233d8e6df1aaa12aad532282aec324b0c823b1646be31a5b71e5e7c035ba06270
-SHA512 (python-tables-3.7.0.tar.gz) = 133ba3099fdc788e6fedf3b82ed4e14274c5af093a5ffdc86e3816cb4fe4be76ce389b43eb50421ac44b387ef1be75746105e39a839a10efd254e2d75c1c677e