diff --git a/0001-use-highlight-3-by-default.patch b/0001-use-highlight-3-by-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4263113
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-use-highlight-3-by-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From fc155711420fd305e5b6570b61ef605a99ba30c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
+Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:53:33 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] use highlight-3 by default
+
+All Fedora and EL releases have highlight-3.x except for EL-5.  Make it
+the default.
+---
+ filters/syntax-highlighting.sh | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
+index 840bc34..5033f58 100755
+--- a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
++++ b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
+@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ EXTENSION="${BASENAME##*.}"
+ # found (for example) on EPEL 6.
+ #
+ # This is for version 2
+-exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
++#exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
+ 
+ # This is for version 3
+-#exec highlight --force -f -I -O xhtml -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
++exec highlight --force -f -I -O xhtml -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
+-- 
+2.32.0
+
diff --git a/cgit-0.9.1-highlightv3.patch b/cgit-0.9.1-highlightv3.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index df06a81..0000000
--- a/cgit-0.9.1-highlightv3.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nur cgit-0.9.1.orig/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh cgit-0.9.1/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
---- cgit-0.9.1.orig/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh	2012-11-14 17:28:59.000000000 -0700
-+++ cgit-0.9.1/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh	2012-11-17 10:47:07.870778180 -0700
-@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
- # found (for example) on EPEL 6.
- #
- # This is for version 2
--exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
-+#exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
- 
- # This is for version 3
--#exec highlight --force -f -I -O xhtml -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
-+exec highlight --force -f -I -O xhtml -S "$EXTENSION" 2>/dev/null
diff --git a/cgit.spec b/cgit.spec
index 1e2ec95..3b8b0b1 100644
--- a/cgit.spec
+++ b/cgit.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Source92:        https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/snapshot/%{name}-%{version}.tar.asc
 Source93:        https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-%{gitver}.tar.sign
 
 # All supported releases use highlight version 3.
-Patch0:         cgit-0.9.1-highlightv3.patch
+Patch0:         0001-use-highlight-3-by-default.patch
 
 # Improve test suite's support for older tar versions
 # https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2020-August/004513.html
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ make test
 - clean up & improve dist conditionals
 - remove %%_python_bytecompile_extra
 - limit *.py[co] %%exclude to el7
+- refresh highlight v3 patch
 
 * Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild