diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-ssh2-python.yml b/.github/workflows/build-ssh2-python.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44a003fac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-ssh2-python.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# Based on the `build-manylinux`/`build-wheels` steps of
+# https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh2-python/blob/1.2.0.post1/ci/build-manylinux.sh
+name: Build ssh2-python wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'ssh2-python version (git tag, e.g. 1.2.0.post1)'
+        required: true
+        default: '1.2.0.post1'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-ssh2-python.yml'
+      - 'patches/ssh2-python/**'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ inputs.version || '1.2.0.post1' }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  # `inputs.version` is empty on pull_request events; default to 1.2.0.post1 there.
+  SSH2_PYTHON_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version || '1.2.0.post1' }}
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    name: Build ssh2-python ${{ inputs.version || '1.2.0.post1' }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python: ["cp312", "cp313", "cp314", "cp314t"]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout ssh2-python ${{ env.SSH2_PYTHON_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: ParallelSSH/ssh2-python
+          ref: ${{ env.SSH2_PYTHON_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Checkout python-wheels
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          path: python-wheels
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Patch ssh2-python source
+        run: |
+          git apply python-wheels/patches/ssh2-python/${{ env.SSH2_PYTHON_VERSION }}/*.patch
+          # versioneer's `git describe --tags --dirty` has no pretend-version escape
+          # hatch the way setuptools_scm does (gotcha 315); hide just the patched
+          # file from dirty-detection instead of poisoning the wheel version.
+          git update-index --skip-worktree setup.py
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+          only: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+        env:
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          # setup.py's build_ssh2() always cmake-builds the libssh2 tree checked
+          # into libssh2/ against CRYPTO_BACKEND=OpenSSL (the SYSTEM_LIBSSH2 escape
+          # is unused here); upstream's own manylinux image builds OpenSSL 3.4.0
+          # from source first, which fails on riscv64 (no FindBin.pm, gotcha 46).
+          # Rocky 10's own openssl-devel is already current, so use that instead
+          # (mirrors build-uamqp.yml/build-pylibsrtp.yml).
+          CIBW_BEFORE_ALL_LINUX: >-
+            dnf -y install openssl-devel zlib-devel &&
+            cp libssh2/COPYING {project}/LICENSE.libssh2 &&
+            cp /usr/share/licenses/openssl-libs/LICENSE.txt {project}/LICENSE.openssl
+          CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.riseproject.dev/simple/
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest pytest-rerunfailures
+          # tests/ is a package (has __init__.py); {project}/tests would run pytest
+          # against the checkout, whose sibling ssh2/ source dir (no .so files, only
+          # .py/.pxd) shadows the installed wheel (gotcha 25). test-sources copies
+          # just tests/ into an otherwise-empty cwd, so a path relative to it imports
+          # the wheel instead.
+          CIBW_TEST_SOURCES: tests
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m pytest tests
+
+      - name: Check the wheel ships the extensions, libssh2 and both licences
+        run: |
+          python3 - wheelhouse/*.whl <<'EOF'
+          import sys, zipfile
+          for whl in sys.argv[1:]:
+              names = zipfile.ZipFile(whl).namelist()
+              assert any(n.startswith("ssh2/session") and n.endswith(".so") for n in names), names
+              assert any(n.startswith("ssh2/libssh2.so") for n in names), names
+              licences = {n.rsplit("/", 1)[1]
+                          for n in names if ".dist-info/licenses/" in n} - {""}
+              assert licences == {"LICENSE", "COPYING", "LICENSE.libssh2", "LICENSE.openssl"}, (whl, licences)
+              print(whl, "ok")
+          EOF
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: ssh2-python-${{ env.SSH2_PYTHON_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish ssh2-python ${{ inputs.version || '1.2.0.post1' }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: ssh2-python-${{ inputs.version || '1.2.0.post1' }}-*-manylinux_riscv64
diff --git a/patches/ssh2-python/1.2.0.post1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-bundled-third-party-lic.patch b/patches/ssh2-python/1.2.0.post1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-bundled-third-party-lic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9c44779d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/ssh2-python/1.2.0.post1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-bundled-third-party-lic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Widen license-files to cover bundled third-party licences
+
+`license_files=['LICENSE', 'COPYING']` is an explicit setuptools list, so
+it does not fall back to the `LICEN[CS]E*` auto-discovery glob: a
+`LICENSE.<dep>` dropped at the project root to cover a library
+`auditwheel repair` vendors into the wheel (libssh2, statically checked
+in under `libssh2/` and built from source, and OpenSSL, linked from the
+build image) is silently ignored. Widening the list to also match
+`LICENSE.*` picks those up with no other packaging change.
+
+Upstream's own wheels (manylinux2014/manylinux_2_28 x86_64/aarch64) carry
+the same gap: only LICENSE/COPYING ship in dist-info/licenses, with no
+notice for libssh2 or OpenSSL.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [not submitted from this automated port run; needs a pull request against ParallelSSH/ssh2-python]
+---
+ setup.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 04dafae..4971ce3 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ setup(
+     cmdclass=cmdclass,
+     url='https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh2-python',
+     license='LGPL-2.1-only',
+-    license_files=['LICENSE', 'COPYING'],
++    license_files=['LICENSE', 'COPYING', 'LICENSE.*'],
+     author='Panos Kittenis',
+     author_email='danst@tutanota.com',
+     description='Bindings for libssh2 C library',
+--
+2.43.0