diff --git a/apr.spec b/apr.spec
index 6d2630c..3528aec 100644
--- a/apr.spec
+++ b/apr.spec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 Summary: Apache Portable Runtime library
 Name: apr
 Version: 1.7.3
-Release: 7%{?dist}
+Release: 8%{?dist}
 # Apache-2.0: everything
 # ISC: network_io/apr-1.4.6/network_io/unix/inet_?to?.c
 # BSD-4-Clause-UC:  strings/apr_snprintf.c, strings/apr_fnmatch.c,
@@ -51,11 +51,7 @@ Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of
 C data structures and routines.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-%patch1 -p1 -b .libdir
-%patch2 -p1 -b .pkgconf
-%patch3 -p1 -b .deepbind
-%patch4 -p1 -b .autoconf-2-71
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 # regenerate configure script etc.
@@ -145,6 +141,9 @@ popd
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/*.m4
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb  8 2024 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 1.7.3-8
+- use autosetup
+
 * Mon Jan 29 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.3-7
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild