diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-python-active-directory.yml b/.github/workflows/build-python-active-directory.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa5918982910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-python-active-directory.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+name: Build python-active-directory wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version glob to (re)build; empty builds every version of docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml not released yet'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-python-active-directory.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml'
+      - 'patches/python-active-directory/**'
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-python-active-directory.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml'
+      - 'patches/python-active-directory/**'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+    with:
+      package: python-active-directory
+      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    name: Build python-active-directory ${{ matrix.version }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+        python:
+          - "cp312"
+          - "cp313"
+          - "cp314"
+          - "cp314t"
+
+    env:
+      PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout python-active-directory v${{ env.PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: theatlantic/python-active-directory
+          ref: v${{ env.PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Checkout python-wheels
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          path: python-wheels
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Apply patches
+        run: git apply python-wheels/patches/python-active-directory/${{ env.PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION }}/*.patch
+
+      - name: Stage the licence-collection script
+        run: |
+          cat > collect-licenses.sh <<'COLLECT_EOF'
+          #!/bin/bash
+          # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+          # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+          #
+          # Stage, at the project root, the licence of every shared library
+          # auditwheel vendors out of the build image alongside the krb5.c
+          # extension (the MIT Kerberos stack). setuptools' default
+          # LICEN[CS]E* glob copies them into the wheel.
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          project="${1:?usage: collect-licenses.sh <project-dir>}"
+
+          mapfile -t libs < <(
+              ldd /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '^/'
+              readlink -f /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so
+          )
+          mapfile -t libs < <(printf '%s\n' "${libs[@]}" | sort -u)
+
+          mapfile -t pkgs < <(
+              rpm -qf --qf '%{NAME}\n' "${libs[@]}" 2>/dev/null |
+                  grep -E '^[A-Za-z0-9._+-]+$' | sort -u |
+                  grep -vE '^(glibc|libgcc|libstdc\+\+|gcc|zlib-ng-compat)$'
+          )
+
+          for pkg in "${pkgs[@]}"; do
+              rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}: %{LICENSE}\n' "$pkg"
+              mapfile -t files < <(rpm -q --licensefiles "$pkg" 2>/dev/null || true)
+
+              if [ -z "${files[0]:-}" ]; then
+                  srpm=$(rpm -q --qf '%{SOURCERPM}\n' "$pkg")
+                  mapfile -t files < <(
+                      rpm -qa --qf '%{SOURCERPM} %{NAME}\n' |
+                          awk -v s="$srpm" '$1 == s { print $2 }' |
+                          xargs -r rpm -q --licensefiles 2>/dev/null | sort -u
+                  )
+              fi
+
+              if [ -z "${files[0]:-}" ]; then
+                  dnf -y --disablerepo=extras reinstall --setopt=tsflags= "$pkg" >/dev/null
+                  mapfile -t files < <(rpm -qd "$pkg" | grep -iE '/(LICEN[CS]E|COPYING|NOTICE)')
+              fi
+
+              for f in "${files[@]}"; do
+                  [ -f "$f" ] || continue
+                  cp "$f" "$project/LICENSE.${pkg}.$(basename "$f")"
+              done
+              compgen -G "$project/LICENSE.$pkg.*" >/dev/null ||
+                  { echo "no licence file found for $pkg" >&2; exit 1; }
+          done
+
+          ls -1 "$project"/LICENSE.* | sed "s|$project/||"
+          COLLECT_EOF
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+          only: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+        env:
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          # krb5-devel builds our own extension; openldap-devel/cyrus-sasl-devel
+          # are for python-ldap (install_requires, no riscv64 wheel anywhere -
+          # it builds from its sdist whenever pip resolves it, here and for
+          # every consumer on this registry).
+          CIBW_BEFORE_ALL_LINUX: >-
+            dnf -y install krb5-devel openldap-devel cyrus-sasl-devel &&
+            bash {project}/collect-licenses.sh {project}
+          CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.riseproject.dev/simple/
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest pexpect
+          # tests/ is a package whose sibling lib/ source dir would shadow the
+          # installed wheel (gotcha 25).
+          CIBW_TEST_SOURCES: tests
+          # Default tests/test.conf.example disables readonly/intrusive AD
+          # tests (conf.require() skips them), so the suite needs no real
+          # Active Directory server - matches upstream's own tox.ini.
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m pytest -q -ra tests
+
+      - name: Check the wheel ships the extension and the licences
+        run: |
+          python3 - wheelhouse/*.whl <<'EOF'
+          import sys, zipfile
+          for whl in sys.argv[1:]:
+              names = zipfile.ZipFile(whl).namelist()
+              assert any(n.startswith("activedirectory/protocol/krb5") and n.endswith(".so") for n in names), (whl, names)
+              lic = {n.rsplit("/", 1)[1] for n in names if ".dist-info/licenses/" in n} - {""}
+              print(whl, sorted(lic))
+              assert "LICENSE" in lic, lic
+              pkgs = {f.split(".", 2)[1] for f in lic if f.startswith("LICENSE.") and f.count(".") >= 2}
+              assert "krb5-libs" in pkgs, pkgs
+          EOF
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: python-active-directory-${{ env.PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  gpl_sources:
+    needs: [setup]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    name: Collect GPL sources for python-active-directory ${{ matrix.version }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+
+    env:
+      PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout python-wheels
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      # keyutils-libs is the one copyleft library auditwheel vendors out of
+      # the build image alongside libkrb5 (same krb5 stack as ssh-python).
+      - uses: ./actions/collect-gpl-sources
+        with:
+          image: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          packages: gcc keyutils-libs
+          output: gpl-sources.tar
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: python-active-directory-${{ env.PYTHON_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_VERSION }}-gpl-sources
+          path: gpl-sources.tar
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish python-active-directory ${{ matrix.version }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels, gpl_sources]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    secrets:
+      app-private-key: ${{ secrets.RISEPROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: python-active-directory-${{ matrix.version }}-*-manylinux_riscv64
+      gpl-sources-artifact: python-active-directory-${{ matrix.version }}-gpl-sources
+      gpl-sources-description: gcc
diff --git a/docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml b/docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b4c106d31fc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/packages/python-active-directory.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package-name: python-active-directory
+source-code: https://github.com/theatlantic/python-active-directory
+license: MIT
+versions:
+- version: 2.0.1
diff --git a/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0001-compat-drop-distutils-for-Python-3.12.patch b/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0001-compat-drop-distutils-for-Python-3.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cc0f9930de79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0001-compat-drop-distutils-for-Python-3.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] compat: drop distutils for Python 3.12+
+
+activedirectory.util.compat imports distutils.version at module load
+time, only to compare python-ldap's version against 2.4.0 with
+StrictVersion. distutils was removed from the standard library in
+Python 3.12 (PEP 632), so `import activedirectory` fails with
+"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'" on every interpreter
+this registry builds for (cp312, cp313, cp314, cp314t), unless
+setuptools happens to be installed and injects its vendored copy.
+
+Replace the four StrictVersion comparisons with one module-level
+(major, minor) tuple comparison computed from ldap.__version__. The
+behaviour is unchanged: install_requires already pins python-ldap>=3.0,
+so the check is always true for a supported install.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [not yet submitted; upstream's tox.ini only covers py37/py38]
+
+Signed-off-by: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+---
+ lib/activedirectory/util/compat.py | 12 +++++++-----
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/activedirectory/util/compat.py b/lib/activedirectory/util/compat.py
+index eb6a68a..f4d3462 100644
+--- a/lib/activedirectory/util/compat.py
++++ b/lib/activedirectory/util/compat.py
+@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
+ import ldap
+ import ldap.dn
+ 
+-from distutils import version
++# distutils was removed from the standard library in Python 3.12 (PEP 632);
++# all it was used for here is comparing python-ldap's version against 2.4.
++_LDAP_2_4 = tuple(int(x) for x in ldap.__version__.split('.')[:2]) >= (2, 4)
+ 
+ # ldap.str2dn has been removed in python-ldap >= 2.3.6. We now need to use
+ # the version in ldap.dn.
+@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ def disable_reverse_dns():
+     # Possibly add in a Kerberos minimum version check as well...
+     return hasattr(ldap, 'OPT_X_SASL_NOCANON')
+ 
+-if version.StrictVersion('2.4.0') <= version.StrictVersion(ldap.__version__):
++if _LDAP_2_4:
+     LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED_RESULTS = ldap.CONTROL_PAGEDRESULTS
+ else:
+     LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED_RESULTS = ldap.LDAP_CONTROL_PAGE_OID
+@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ class SimplePagedResultsControl(ldap.controls.SimplePagedResultsControl):
+     """
+ 
+     def __init__(self, page_size=0, cookie=''):
+-        if version.StrictVersion('2.4.0') <= version.StrictVersion(ldap.__version__):
++        if _LDAP_2_4:
+             ldap.controls.SimplePagedResultsControl.__init__(
+                     self,
+                     size=page_size,
+@@ -51,13 +53,13 @@ class SimplePagedResultsControl(ldap.controls.SimplePagedResultsControl):
+                 )
+ 
+     def cookie(self):
+-        if version.StrictVersion('2.4.0') <= version.StrictVersion(ldap.__version__):
++        if _LDAP_2_4:
+             return self.cookie
+         else:
+             return self.controlValue[1]
+ 
+     def size(self):
+-        if version.StrictVersion('2.4.0') <= version.StrictVersion(ldap.__version__):
++        if _LDAP_2_4:
+             return self.size
+         else:
+             return self.controlValue[0]
diff --git a/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0002-tests-netlogon-fix-swapped-site-names-in-test_real_packet.patch b/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0002-tests-netlogon-fix-swapped-site-names-in-test_real_packet.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d39a29ceaef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/python-active-directory/2.0.1/0002-tests-netlogon-fix-swapped-site-names-in-test_real_packet.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] tests: netlogon: fix swapped site names in test_real_packet
+
+netlogon.Decoder.parse() decodes DcSiteName before ClientSiteName, the
+order of NETLOGON_SAM_LOGON_RESPONSE_EX in MS-ADTS 2.2.1.9; releases up
+to 1.0.5 decoded them the other way round. The test still asserts the
+old assignment, so it fails on every platform: tests/protocol/netlogon.bin
+carries "Default-First-Site" as the DC site and "Test-Site" as the client
+site.
+
+Swap the two expected values to match the decoder and the packet.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [not yet submitted; upstream has no CI running the test suite]
+
+Signed-off-by: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+---
+ tests/protocol/test_netlogon.py | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tests/protocol/test_netlogon.py b/tests/protocol/test_netlogon.py
+index 711b5f6..519524b 100644
+--- a/tests/protocol/test_netlogon.py
++++ b/tests/protocol/test_netlogon.py
+@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ class TestDecoder(object):
+         res = dec.parse()
+         assert res.forest == b'freeadi.org'
+         assert res.domain == b'freeadi.org'
+-        assert res.client_site == b'Default-First-Site'
+-        assert res.server_site == b'Test-Site'
++        assert res.server_site == b'Default-First-Site'
++        assert res.client_site == b'Test-Site'
+ 
+     def test_error_short_input(self):
+         buf = b'x' * 24