diff --git a/0001-meson-rename-libbasic-to-libbasic_static.patch b/0001-meson-rename-libbasic-to-libbasic_static.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8059d87..0000000
--- a/0001-meson-rename-libbasic-to-libbasic_static.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
-From 8954e7ccc1f2005df221f50882f3253518c63159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:51:05 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 1/3] meson: rename libbasic to libbasic_static
-
-Our variables for internal libraries are named 'libfoo' for the shared lib
-variant, and 'libfoo_static' for the static lib variant. The only exception was
-libbasic, because we didn't have a shared variant for it. But let's rename it
-for consitency. This makes the build config easier to understand.
-
-(cherry picked from commit 732ed8a84e8b264fccd3f5c0fc68ec2894b6d8ea)
----
- meson.build                | 4 ++--
- src/basic/meson.build      | 2 +-
- src/libsystemd/meson.build | 2 +-
- src/partition/meson.build  | 2 +-
- src/shared/meson.build     | 2 +-
- src/shutdown/meson.build   | 2 +-
- src/sysusers/meson.build   | 2 +-
- src/test/meson.build       | 8 ++++----
- src/tmpfiles/meson.build   | 2 +-
- 9 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index b1a110cbfc..58748a37a3 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -2089,7 +2089,7 @@ libsystemd = shared_library(
-                      # Make sure our library is never deleted from memory, so that our open logging fds don't leak on dlopen/dlclose cycles.
-                      '-z', 'nodelete',
-                      '-Wl,--version-script=' + libsystemd_sym_path],
--        link_with : [libbasic],
-+        link_with : [libbasic_static],
-         link_whole : [libsystemd_static],
-         dependencies : [librt,
-                         threads,
-@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ nss_template = {
-         'link_with' : [
-                 libsystemd_static,
-                 libshared_static,
--                libbasic,
-+                libbasic_static,
-         ],
-         'dependencies' : [
-                 librt,
-diff --git a/src/basic/meson.build b/src/basic/meson.build
-index 9a214575a5..b538775576 100644
---- a/src/basic/meson.build
-+++ b/src/basic/meson.build
-@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ filesystem_switch_case_h = custom_target(
- 
- basic_sources += [filesystem_list_h, filesystem_switch_case_h, filesystems_gperf_h]
- 
--libbasic = static_library(
-+libbasic_static = static_library(
-         'basic',
-         basic_sources,
-         fundamental_sources,
-diff --git a/src/libsystemd/meson.build b/src/libsystemd/meson.build
-index 6d4337d1a7..243549299f 100644
---- a/src/libsystemd/meson.build
-+++ b/src/libsystemd/meson.build
-@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ libsystemd_static = static_library(
-         libsystemd_sources,
-         include_directories : libsystemd_includes,
-         c_args : libsystemd_c_args,
--        link_with : [libbasic],
-+        link_with : [libbasic_static],
-         dependencies : [threads,
-                         librt,
-                         userspace],
-diff --git a/src/partition/meson.build b/src/partition/meson.build
-index 52e1368116..2cfe43e029 100644
---- a/src/partition/meson.build
-+++ b/src/partition/meson.build
-@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ executables += [
-                 'sources' : files('repart.c'),
-                 'c_args' : '-DSTANDALONE',
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libshared_fdisk,
-                         libshared_static,
-                         libsystemd_static,
-diff --git a/src/shared/meson.build b/src/shared/meson.build
-index c5106d87d5..e513c0ec1c 100644
---- a/src/shared/meson.build
-+++ b/src/shared/meson.build
-@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ libshared = shared_library(
-                      '-Wl,--version-script=' + libshared_sym_path],
-         link_depends : libshared_sym_path,
-         link_whole : [libshared_static,
--                      libbasic,
-+                      libbasic_static,
-                       libsystemd_static],
-         dependencies : [libshared_deps,
-                         userspace],
-diff --git a/src/shutdown/meson.build b/src/shutdown/meson.build
-index 219f9fd308..9bc60f83e5 100644
---- a/src/shutdown/meson.build
-+++ b/src/shutdown/meson.build
-@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ executables += [
-                 'sources' : systemd_shutdown_sources,
-                 'c_args' : '-DSTANDALONE',
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libshared_static,
-                         libsystemd_static,
-                 ],
-diff --git a/src/sysusers/meson.build b/src/sysusers/meson.build
-index 0f9c067d50..403d82a340 100644
---- a/src/sysusers/meson.build
-+++ b/src/sysusers/meson.build
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ executables += [
-                 'sources' : files('sysusers.c'),
-                 'c_args' : '-DSTANDALONE',
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libshared_static,
-                         libsystemd_static,
-                 ],
-diff --git a/src/test/meson.build b/src/test/meson.build
-index 3abbb94d9f..9d3c7d675f 100644
---- a/src/test/meson.build
-+++ b/src/test/meson.build
-@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ executables += [
-                 # only static linking apart from libdl, to make sure that the
-                 # module is linked to all libraries that it uses.
-                 'sources' : files('test-dlopen.c'),
--                'link_with' : libbasic,
-+                'link_with' : libbasic_static,
-                 'dependencies' : libdl,
-                 'install' : false,
-                 'type' : 'manual',
-@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ executables += [
-         },
-         test_template + {
-                 'sources' : files('test-sizeof.c'),
--                'link_with' : libbasic,
-+                'link_with' : libbasic_static,
-         },
-         test_template + {
-                 'sources' : files('test-time-util.c'),
-@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ executables += [
-         test_template + {
-                 'sources' : files('../libsystemd/sd-device/test-sd-device-thread.c'),
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libsystemd,
-                 ],
-                 'dependencies' : threads,
-@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ executables += [
-         test_template + {
-                 'sources' : files('../libudev/test-udev-device-thread.c'),
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libudev,
-                 ],
-                 'dependencies' : threads,
-diff --git a/src/tmpfiles/meson.build b/src/tmpfiles/meson.build
-index 2e918509a7..09ad839586 100644
---- a/src/tmpfiles/meson.build
-+++ b/src/tmpfiles/meson.build
-@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ executables += [
-                 'sources' : systemd_tmpfiles_sources,
-                 'c_args' : '-DSTANDALONE',
-                 'link_with' : [
--                        libbasic,
-+                        libbasic_static,
-                         libshared_static,
-                         libsystemd_static,
-                 ],
diff --git a/0002-meson-build-libsystemd-core-via-an-intermediate-stat.patch b/0002-meson-build-libsystemd-core-via-an-intermediate-stat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c7423e9..0000000
--- a/0002-meson-build-libsystemd-core-via-an-intermediate-stat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-From 3b101982011d787c05d7708740e6eada560c62cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:03:26 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/3] meson: build libsystemd-core via an intermediate static
- library
-
-By itself, this is not useful. I'm making this a separate commit to
-make debugging easier. It turns out that meson does static libraries
-using references, so the "static library" a tiny stub stub that refers
-to the object files on disk and this has negligible cost:
-$ ls -lhd build/src/core/libsystemd-core-257.{a,so}
--rw-r--r-- 1 zbyszek zbyszek  36K Jul  3 16:54 build/src/core/libsystemd-core-257.a
--rwxr-xr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 6.1M Jul  3 16:54 build/src/core/libsystemd-core-257.so
-
-(cherry picked from commit d0689ee5fbfafa736e6eca89bc80cb2d372f2229)
----
- src/core/meson.build | 16 +++++++++++-----
- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/core/meson.build b/src/core/meson.build
-index 7a2012a372..1ef31cc529 100644
---- a/src/core/meson.build
-+++ b/src/core/meson.build
-@@ -110,17 +110,13 @@ load_fragment_gperf_nulstr_c = custom_target(
- 
- libcore_name = 'systemd-core-@0@'.format(shared_lib_tag)
- 
--libcore = shared_library(
-+libcore_static = static_library(
-         libcore_name,
-         libcore_sources,
-         load_fragment_gperf_c,
-         load_fragment_gperf_nulstr_c,
-         include_directories : includes,
-         c_args : ['-fvisibility=default'],
--        link_args : ['-shared',
--                     '-Wl,--version-script=' + libshared_sym_path],
--        link_depends : libshared_sym_path,
--        link_with : libshared,
-         dependencies : [libacl,
-                         libapparmor,
-                         libaudit,
-@@ -135,6 +131,16 @@ libcore = shared_library(
-                         libselinux,
-                         threads,
-                         userspace],
-+        build_by_default : false)
-+
-+libcore = shared_library(
-+        libcore_name,
-+        c_args : ['-fvisibility=default'],
-+        link_args : ['-shared',
-+                     '-Wl,--version-script=' + libshared_sym_path],
-+        link_depends : libshared_sym_path,
-+        link_whole: libcore_static,
-+        link_with : libshared,
-         install : true,
-         install_dir : pkglibdir)
- 
diff --git a/0003-meson-add-option-to-build-systemd-executor-staticall.patch b/0003-meson-add-option-to-build-systemd-executor-staticall.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 73a12b2..0000000
--- a/0003-meson-add-option-to-build-systemd-executor-staticall.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-From 254338a838354d9d3e43efa14190ca1203ef3afe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:05:31 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 3/3] meson: add option to build systemd-executor "statically"
-
-The new link-executor-shared option is similar to the existing
-link-udev-shared: when set to false, we link to the static versions of our
-internal libraries.
-
-The resulting exuctor binary is fairly large, about as large as libsystemd-core
-(14 MB without lto, 8 with lto).
-
-This is intended as a workaround for the fuckup with the pinned executor
-binary:
-when an upgrade is performed, the package manager will install new version of
-the libraries and new version of the code, and some time later reexecute the
-managers. This creates a window when the pinned executor binary will fail to
-execute. There are two factors which make the issue easier to hit:
-
-- when the distribution uses a finely-grained shared-lib-tag. E.g. Fedora
-  uses version-release as the tag, which means that the issue occurs on
-  every package upgrade. This is the right thing to do, because the
-  ABI of our internal libraries is not stable at all, so replacing the
-  library from a different version in place creates a window where our
-  programs may crash or misbehave.
-
-- when the distribution doesn't immediately reexec all the managers after
-  upgrade. In early versions of systemd, we used to hammer the machine during
-  upgrade, doing daemon-reexecs repeatedly. This works, but is ugly and
-  wasteful. Doing the reexecs while the upgrade is in progres also creates a
-  window where a mix of old and new configs or both is loaded. Users are
-  particularly annoyed by those reloads if there is some issue in the
-  configuration causing us to emit warnings on every reexec. Doing the
-  reexecs once after the new configuration and libraries have been put
-  in place is nicer.
-
-The pinning of the executor binary breaks upgrades and in particular
-it penalizes the distributions which make use of the features which
-were previously added to avoid bugs and inefficiency during upgrades.
-
-When the executor is linked statically, there is a smaller chance that it'll
-fail to load libraries. The issue can still occur because other libraries, not
-our own, are linked dynamically.
-
-(cherry picked from commit d59cae6cebd0fc25a16a020bd28e5303901f1b19)
----
- meson_options.txt    |  2 ++
- src/core/meson.build | 16 ++++++++++++----
- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
-index 667340ca59..909e2d53e8 100644
---- a/meson_options.txt
-+++ b/meson_options.txt
-@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ option('rootprefix', type : 'string', deprecated: true,
-        description : 'This option is deprecated and will be removed in a future release')
- option('link-udev-shared', type : 'boolean',
-        description : 'link systemd-udevd and its helpers to libsystemd-shared.so')
-+option('link-executor-shared', type : 'boolean',
-+       description : 'link systemd-executor to libsystemd-shared.so and libsystemd-core.so')
- option('link-systemctl-shared', type: 'boolean',
-        description : 'link systemctl against libsystemd-shared.so')
- option('link-networkd-shared', type: 'boolean',
-diff --git a/src/core/meson.build b/src/core/meson.build
-index 1ef31cc529..dbeb752977 100644
---- a/src/core/meson.build
-+++ b/src/core/meson.build
-@@ -156,6 +156,17 @@ systemd_executor_sources = files(
-         'exec-invoke.c',
- )
- 
-+executor_libs = get_option('link-executor-shared') ? \
-+        [
-+                libcore,
-+                libshared,
-+        ] : [
-+                libcore_static,
-+                libshared_static,
-+                libbasic_static,
-+                libsystemd_static,
-+        ]
-+
- executables += [
-         libexec_template + {
-                 'name' : 'systemd',
-@@ -173,10 +184,7 @@ executables += [
-                 'public' : true,
-                 'sources' : systemd_executor_sources,
-                 'include_directories' : core_includes,
--                'link_with' : [
--                        libcore,
--                        libshared,
--                ],
-+                'link_with' : executor_libs,
-                 'dependencies' : [
-                         libapparmor,
-                         libpam,
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index 4c95a7f..2800965 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Name:           systemd
 Url:            https://systemd.io
 # Allow users to specify the version and release when building the rpm by 
 # setting the %%version_override and %%release_override macros.
-Version:        %{?version_override}%{!?version_override:256.2}
+Version:        %{?version_override}%{!?version_override:256.3}
 Release:        %{?release_override}%{!?release_override:1.1}%{?dist}
 
 %global stable %(c="%version"; [ "$c" = "${c#*.*}" ]; echo $?)
@@ -115,10 +115,6 @@ Patch0010:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/26494.patch
 # Requested in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298422
 Patch0011:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/33738.patch
 
-Patch0020:      0001-meson-rename-libbasic-to-libbasic_static.patch
-Patch0021:      0002-meson-build-libsystemd-core-via-an-intermediate-stat.patch
-Patch0022:      0003-meson-add-option-to-build-systemd-executor-staticall.patch
-
 # Those are downstream-only patches, but we don't want them in packit builds:
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251843
 Patch0491:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30846.patch