diff --git a/hyperscan-5.4.2-port-to-newer-cmake.patch b/hyperscan-5.4.2-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef111aa32a690668724f8fa4b850ec3cc406a7ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyperscan-5.4.2-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+--- hyperscan-5.4.2/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2025-03-04 14:31:48.931393681 +0800
++++ hyperscan-5.4.2/CMakeLists.txt	2025-03-04 14:32:31.624998106 +0800
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.11)
++cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.12)
+ project (hyperscan C CXX)
+ 
+ set (HS_MAJOR_VERSION 5)
+@@ -72,12 +72,12 @@
+ include (${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}/boost.cmake)
+ 
+ # -- make this work? set(python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 2.7 2.6)
+-find_package(PythonInterp)
++find_package(Python)
+ find_program(RAGEL ragel)
+ find_program(COPY cp)
+ 
+-if(PYTHONINTERP_FOUND)
+-    set(PYTHON ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
++if(Python_FOUND)
++    set(PYTHON ${Python_EXECUTABLE})
+ else()
+     message(FATAL_ERROR "No python interpreter found")
+ endif()
diff --git a/hyperscan.spec b/hyperscan.spec
index cc01a6138e8ecc63aa4897e568c1a458c38a2624..b2f30b14fab2d72eedda06f29d8e98440ef710b0 100644
--- a/hyperscan.spec
+++ b/hyperscan.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:    hyperscan
 Version: 5.4.2
-Release: 3
+Release: 4
 Summary: High-performance regular expression matching library
 
 License: BSD-3-Clause
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Source0: https://github.com/intel/%{name}/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{
 Patch0: hyperscan-aarch64-support.patch
 Patch1: Fix-hyperscan-gcc10.patch
 Patch2: support-clang-build.patch
+Patch3: hyperscan-5.4.2-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ sed -i 's/_mm_srli_si128/rshiftbyte_m128/' src/util/state_compress.c
 %{_includedir}/hs
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 04 2025 Funda Wang <fundawang@yeah.net> - 5.4.2-4
+- try build with cmake 4.0
+
 * Sun Oct 06 2024 Funda Wang <fundawang@yeah.net> - 5.4.2-3
 - disable LTO build
 - adopt to new cmake macro