diff --git a/0001-tests-3021-and-3022-require-libssh2.patch b/0001-tests-3021-and-3022-require-libssh2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 53b74a6..0000000
--- a/0001-tests-3021-and-3022-require-libssh2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-From 4825d0cd3af5a5e51bb5e045cb12283138620d0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:10:42 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] test302[12]: run only with the libssh2 backend
-
-... as the others don't support --hostpubsha256
-
-Reported-by: Paul Howarth
-Fixes #8009
-Closes #8010
----
- tests/data/test3021 | 4 ++++
- tests/data/test3022 | 4 ++++
- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/tests/data/test3021 b/tests/data/test3021
-index 0a02e18443e4..bd6ae8d6dc47 100644
---- a/tests/data/test3021
-+++ b/tests/data/test3021
-@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ test
- #
- # Client-side
- <client>
-+# so far only the libssh2 backend supports SHA256
-+<features>
-+libssh2
-+</features>
- <server>
- sftp
- </server>
-diff --git a/tests/data/test3022 b/tests/data/test3022
-index f3477909d698..db24ca9f4a01 100644
---- a/tests/data/test3022
-+++ b/tests/data/test3022
-@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ test
- #
- # Client-side
- <client>
-+# so far only the libssh2 backend supports SHA256
-+<features>
-+libssh2
-+</features>
- <server>
- scp
- </server>
diff --git a/curl-7.80.0.tar.xz.asc b/curl-7.80.0.tar.xz.asc
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b45339..0000000
--- a/curl-7.80.0.tar.xz.asc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
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-
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diff --git a/curl-7.81.0.tar.xz.asc b/curl-7.81.0.tar.xz.asc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08aa7ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/curl-7.81.0.tar.xz.asc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+
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+=kV6S
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diff --git a/curl.spec b/curl.spec
index baddb24..ca9d274 100644
--- a/curl.spec
+++ b/curl.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
 Name: curl
-Version: 7.80.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 7.81.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 Source0: https://curl.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1: https://curl.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz.asc
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ Source1: https://curl.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz.asc
 # which points to the GPG key as of April 7th 2016 of https://daniel.haxx.se/mykey.asc
 Source2: mykey.asc
 
-# patch to skip tests 3031/2 unless SSH backend is libssh2
-Patch1: 0001-tests-3021-and-3022-require-libssh2.patch
-
 # patch making libcurl multilib ready
 Patch101: 0101-curl-7.32.0-multilib.patch
 
@@ -187,7 +184,6 @@ be installed.
 %setup -q
 
 # upstream patches
-%patch1 -p1
 
 # Fedora patches
 %patch101 -p1
@@ -415,6 +411,9 @@ rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_libdir}/libcurl.la
 %{_libdir}/libcurl.so.4.[0-9].[0-9].minimal
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 05 2022 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.81.0-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Sun Nov 14 2021 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 7.80.0-2
 - sshserver.pl (used in test suite) now requires the Digest::SHA perl module
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9500493..eb1e3bc 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (curl-7.80.0.tar.xz) = e04ddd74b0d5b3607a29bcf5d379d83a01c7dffa4ad3e2f25d8c85a3df7dbdb0625b0df1f04f02351695674502828e0e17e8b46c889cbf1e43f86d6e6dd716ab
+SHA512 (curl-7.81.0.tar.xz) = 38355aaee38db04bb2babdc5fd7a88284580c836d15df754f42b104997dd344b7841be8e53b4fc91aea31db170a7d6967c4976833eb4bfe0d265c7275c4800df