diff --git a/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-Don-t-print-usage.patch b/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-Don-t-print-usage.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff9d1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-Don-t-print-usage.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From fe274b8f965582fdf97e6c46f90b9e7c124b0b8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:50:12 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] rpm2archive: Don't print usage on no arguments
+
+given as we want to default to reading from stdin and writing to stdout in
+that case.
+---
+ rpm2archive.c | 4 ----
+ 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/rpm2archive.c b/rpm2archive.c
+index 09da8d16b..53f047f58 100644
+--- a/rpm2archive.c
++++ b/rpm2archive.c
+@@ -241,10 +241,6 @@ int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
+ 	    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ 	}
+     }
+-    if (argc < 2 || poptGetNextOpt(optCon) == 0) {
+-	poptPrintUsage(optCon, stderr, 0);
+-	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+-    }
+ 
+     rpmts ts = rpmtsCreate();
+     rpmVSFlags vsflags = 0;
+-- 
+2.38.1
+
diff --git a/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-parse-popt-options.patch b/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-parse-popt-options.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0170c35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-parse-popt-options.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 8f416b275a365426b07c75adfc017e0b18a85450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:45:20 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] rpm2archive: Properly parse popt options
+
+and issue an error message for unknown options. Before unknown options
+could mess up the argument parsing leading to reading and writing from
+stdin/stdout.
+
+Thanks to Eva Mrakova and the Red Hat QE team for spotting this!
+---
+ rpm2archive.c | 8 ++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/rpm2archive.c b/rpm2archive.c
+index de1a17d2b..09da8d16b 100644
+--- a/rpm2archive.c
++++ b/rpm2archive.c
+@@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
+ 
+     optCon = poptGetContext(NULL, argc, argv, optionsTable, 0);
+     poptSetOtherOptionHelp(optCon, "[OPTIONS]* <FILES>");
++    while ((rc = poptGetNextOpt(optCon)) != -1) {
++	if (rc < 0) {
++	    fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n",
++		    poptBadOption(optCon, POPT_BADOPTION_NOALIAS),
++		    poptStrerror(rc));
++	    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
++	}
++    }
+     if (argc < 2 || poptGetNextOpt(optCon) == 0) {
+ 	poptPrintUsage(optCon, stderr, 0);
+ 	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+-- 
+2.38.1
+
diff --git a/SPECS/rpm.spec b/SPECS/rpm.spec
index 9c7cef3..1e7fd25 100644
--- a/SPECS/rpm.spec
+++ b/SPECS/rpm.spec
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 %global rpmver 4.14.3
 #global snapver rc2
-%global rel 25.1
+%global rel 26.1
 
 %global srcver %{version}%{?snapver:-%{snapver}}
 %global srcdir %{?snapver:testing}%{!?snapver:%{name}-%(echo %{version} | cut -d'.' -f1-2).x}
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Patch163: rpm-4.14.3-skip-recorded-symlinks-in-setperms.patch
 Patch164: rpm-4.14.3-fapolicyd-make-write-nonblocking.patch
 Patch165: rpm-4.16.1.3-rpm2archive-error-handling.patch
 Patch166: rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-nocompression.patch
+Patch167: rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-parse-popt-options.patch
+Patch168: rpm-4.14.3-rpm2archive-Don-t-print-usage.patch
 
 # Python 3 string API sanity
 Patch500: 0001-In-Python-3-return-all-our-string-data-as-surrogate-.patch
@@ -841,12 +843,15 @@ make check || cat tests/rpmtests.log
 %doc doc/librpm/html/*
 
 %changelog
-* Fri Dec 16 2022 Davide Cavalca <dcavalca@centosproject.org> - 4.14.3-25.1
+* Wed Dec 21 2022 Davide Cavalca <dcavalca@centosproject.org> - 4.14.3-26.1
 - Merge upstream changes for Hyperscale
 
-* Mon Dec 05 2022 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.14.3-25
+* Mon Dec 19 2022 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.14.4-26
 - Add --nocompression to rpm2archive (#2129345)
 
+* Fri Dec 16 2022 Davide Cavalca <dcavalca@centosproject.org> - 4.14.3-25.1
+- Merge upstream changes for Hyperscale
+
 * Wed Nov 30 2022 Richard Phibel <richardphibel@meta.com> - 4.14.3-24.3
 - Add deny list support and workaround for RPM CoW