diff --git a/backport-Skip-tests-requiring-invoke.patch b/backport-Skip-tests-requiring-invoke.patch
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3499e8d3b7b713378b0ecf88c8beda9dbd92122a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backport-Skip-tests-requiring-invoke.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From 2dc654a20c4f1908d587060809a9d67b31352497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Micha=C5=82=20G=C3=B3rny?= <mgorny@gentoo.org>
+Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:46:39 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Skip tests requiring invoke if it's not installed
+ 
+Since invoke is an optional dependency and only one group of tests
+require it, skip them gracefully rather than failing if it's not
+present.
+---
+ tests/test_config.py | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+ 
+diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
+index 5e9aa0592..2095061f2 100644
+--- a/tests/test_config.py
++++ b/tests/test_config.py
+@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
+ 
+ from paramiko.py3compat import string_types
+ 
+-from invoke import Result
++try:
++    from invoke import Result
++except ImportError:
++    Result = None
++
+ from mock import patch
+ from pytest import raises, mark, fixture
+ 
+@@ -705,6 +709,7 @@ def inner(command, *args, **kwargs):
+     return inner
+ 
+ 
++@mark.skipif(Result is None, reason="requires invoke package")
+ class TestMatchExec(object):
+     @patch("paramiko.config.invoke", new=None)
+     @patch("paramiko.config.invoke_import_error", new=ImportError("meh"))
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diff --git a/python-paramiko.spec b/python-paramiko.spec
index 95ebaa4a723c3aa9f2a60a30b06df3699c0977cd..a584cd9ee130a70af998edbc0f47c0b89ed2cac7 100644
--- a/python-paramiko.spec
+++ b/python-paramiko.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 Name:          python-paramiko
-Version:       2.7.2
-Release:       1
+Version:       2.8.1
+Release:       2
 Summary:       Python SSH module
 License:       LGPLv2+
 URL:           https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko
 Source0:       https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/archive/%{version}/paramiko-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 Patch0:        paramiko-2.7.2-drop-pytest-relaxed.patch
+# Skip tests requiring invoke if it's not installed
+# Can be removed when https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/pull/1667/ is released
+Patch6000:      backport-Skip-tests-requiring-invoke.patch
 
 BuildArch:     noarch
 
@@ -19,9 +22,9 @@ connections to remote machines.
 Summary:       Python SSH module
 BuildRequires: python3-devel python3-setuptools python3-bcrypt >= 3.1.3 python3-pytest
 BuildRequires: python3-cryptography >= 2.5 python3-pyasn1 >= 0.1.7 python3-pynacl >= 1.0.1
-BuildRequires: python3-invoke >= 1.3 python3-mock >= 2.0
+BuildRequires: python3-mock >= 2.0
 Requires:      python3-bcrypt >= 3.1.3 python3-cryptography >= 1.5
-Requires:      python3-pyasn1 >= 0.1.7 python3-pynacl >= 1.0.1 python3-invoke >= 1.3
+Requires:      python3-pyasn1 >= 0.1.7 python3-pynacl >= 1.0.1
 %{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-paramiko}
 
 %description   -n python3-paramiko
@@ -66,6 +69,12 @@ PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib} pytest-%{python3_version}
 %doc html/ demos/ NEWS README.rst
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Feb 26 2022 zhanzhimin <zhanzhimin@h-partners.com> - 2.8.1-2
+- drop invoke dependencies as it requires ancient pytest
+
+* Wed Dec 01 2021 zhanzhimin <zhanzhimin@huawei.com> - 2.8.1-1
+- update to 2.8.1
+
 * Thu Jan 28 2021 zhaorenhai <zhaorenhai@hotmail.com> - 2.7.2-1
 - Upgrade to 2.7.2