diff --git a/vim-pysyntaxwarn.patch b/vim-pysyntaxwarn.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..514a787
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim-pysyntaxwarn.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+diff --git a/src/testdir/test_python3.vim b/src/testdir/test_python3.vim
+index b7140ee..e975cb6 100644
+--- a/src/testdir/test_python3.vim
++++ b/src/testdir/test_python3.vim
+@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ func Test_AAA_python3_setup()
+     import sys
+     import re
+ 
+-    py33_type_error_pattern = re.compile('^__call__\(\) takes (\d+) positional argument but (\d+) were given$')
++    py33_type_error_pattern = re.compile(r'^__call__\(\) takes (\d+) positional argument but (\d+) were given$')
+     py37_exception_repr = re.compile(r'([^\(\),])(\)+)$')
+-    py39_type_error_pattern = re.compile('\w+\.([^(]+\(\) takes)')
+-    py310_type_error_pattern = re.compile('takes (\d+) positional argument but (\d+) were given')
++    py39_type_error_pattern = re.compile(r'\w+\.([^(]+\(\) takes)')
++    py310_type_error_pattern = re.compile(r'takes (\d+) positional argument but (\d+) were given')
+ 
+     def emsg(ei):
+       return ei[0].__name__ + ':' + repr(ei[1].args)
diff --git a/vim.spec b/vim.spec
index b99432a..42e551f 100644
--- a/vim.spec
+++ b/vim.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Summary: The VIM editor
 URL:     http://www.vim.org/
 Name: vim
 Version: %{baseversion}.%{patchlevel}
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}
 Epoch: 2
 # swift.vim contains Apache 2.0 with runtime library exception:
 # which is taken as Apache-2.0 WITH Swift-exception - reported to legal as https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/188
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Patch3005: vim-8.0-copy-paste.patch
 Patch3006: 0001-if_python3.c-Fix-building-dynamic-Python3-interprete.patch
 # https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/12575 + https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/12575#issuecomment-1634226250
 Patch3007: perl538.patch
+# fix python syntax warnings which make test suite fail
+# reported upstream https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/12765
+Patch3008: vim-pysyntaxwarn.patch
 
 
 # uses autoconf in spec file
@@ -414,6 +417,7 @@ perl -pi -e "s,bin/nawk,bin/awk,g" runtime/tools/mve.awk
 %patch -P 3005 -p1 -b .copypaste
 %patch -P 3006 -p1 -b .python312
 %patch -P 3007 -p1 -b .perl538
+%patch -P 3008 -p1 -b .pysyntaxwarn
 
 %build
 cd src
@@ -1036,6 +1040,9 @@ touch %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/%{name}/vimfiles/doc/tags
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 11 2023 Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com> - 2:9.0.1677-4
+- fix test suite from python3 syntax warnings
+
 * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2:9.0.1677-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild