diff --git a/parts.rst b/parts.rst
index c89a57eb..acc15fdd 100644
--- a/parts.rst
+++ b/parts.rst
@@ -1381,8 +1381,8 @@ which 2.21
 bash built-in ``command -v`` but some scripts call ``which`` instead.
 In particular, ``autogen`` scripts use it.
 
-grep 3.12
-=========
+grep 3.7
+========
 
 Newer ``grep`` will be needed to bootstrap ``autogen``.
 
diff --git a/steps/SHA256SUMS.pkgs b/steps/SHA256SUMS.pkgs
index adb8454f..c6f015e4 100644
--- a/steps/SHA256SUMS.pkgs
+++ b/steps/SHA256SUMS.pkgs
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ d34de902de6de9204abedb834c4c39fbb95b993e545fbb090de2b028fa1d4a61  gcc-4.0.4_0.ta
 96f33b53c24f5f46a23c2b9eef8147e684c796889a83bdd39254a73393594a49  gmp-6.2.1_0.tar.bz2
 061bb98da6364ea67c4c1a515ffe06296b4dea045ba3d1b5e229416103f50688  gperf-3.3_0.tar.bz2
 c1989fc2855dbb0350c4e5b677028306614a9f4b5cb6c01fd459c5e1abf592b9  grep-2.4_0.tar.bz2
-7bc5335182db5a38d01ab553b7bb9eba41c3911895e7ab40d6651d361cc40b9a  grep-3.12_0.tar.bz2
+3f3247c7d05fcef0d9f624a523afa01257207584045eb7efb7fb8f29fc782c7a  grep-3.7_0.tar.bz2
 39320fce205c3d53209351c48c7cc59c6157373f940bd9f425cf3c51558fb09f  grub-2.06_0.tar.bz2
 9a5a816925d408967664e82b22b3280db77d940411b0730415dc44f8c9ec09eb  guile-3.0.11_0.tar.bz2
 893bb26efb8b1789702b8fd1a3ed72951990c8e38ab650c5220992405e79b96e  gzip-1.13_0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.12/import-gnulib.sh b/steps/grep-3.12/import-gnulib.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8d4ad59d..00000000
--- a/steps/grep-3.12/import-gnulib.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-rm lib/unictype/ctype_*.h \
- lib/unicase/to{lower,upper}.h
-
-local GNULIB_DIR="$(realpath ../gnulib-3773db6)"
-
-pushd "$GNULIB_DIR"
-rm lib/unictype/ctype_*.h \
- lib/unicase/to{lower,upper}.h
-
-pushd lib
-cat > config.h <<EOF
-#include <stdbool.h>
-EOF
-gcc -Iunictype -o gen-uni-tables str_startswith.c str_endswith.c gen-uni-tables.c
-rm config.h
-mv ../../*-16.0.0.txt ../../PropList-3.0.1.txt .
-./gen-uni-tables UnicodeData-16.0.0.txt \
-    PropList-16.0.0.txt \
-    DerivedCoreProperties-16.0.0.txt \
-    emoji-data-16.0.0.txt \
-    ArabicShaping-16.0.0.txt \
-    Scripts-16.0.0.txt \
-    Blocks-16.0.0.txt \
-    PropList-3.0.1.txt \
-    BidiMirroring-16.0.0.txt \
-    EastAsianWidth-16.0.0.txt \
-    LineBreak-16.0.0.txt \
-    WordBreakProperty-16.0.0.txt \
-    GraphemeBreakProperty-16.0.0.txt \
-    CompositionExclusions-16.0.0.txt \
-    SpecialCasing-16.0.0.txt \
-    CaseFolding-16.0.0.txt \
-    16.0.0
-popd
-
-popd
-
-"$GNULIB_DIR"/gnulib-tool --import --local-dir=gl \
- --lib=libgreputils \
- --source-base=lib \
- --m4-base=m4 \
- --doc-base=doc \
- --tests-base=gnulib-tests \
- --aux-dir=build-aux \
- --with-tests \
- --makefile-name=gnulib.mk \
- --no-conditional-dependencies \
- --no-libtool \
- --macro-prefix=gl \
- --avoid=lock-tests \
- --avoid=mbuiter \
- --avoid=mbuiterf \
- --avoid=mbrlen-tests \
- --avoid=mbrtowc-tests \
- --avoid=update-copyright-tests \
- announce-gen \
- argmatch \
- assert-h \
- c-ctype \
- c-stack \
- c-strcasecmp \
- c32isalnum \
- c32rtomb \
- closeout \
- configmake \
- dfa \
- dirname-lgpl \
- do-release-commit-and-tag \
- error \
- exclude \
- fcntl-h \
- fnmatch \
- fstatat \
- fts \
- getopt-gnu \
- getpagesize \
- getprogname \
- gettext-h \
- git-version-gen \
- gitlog-to-changelog \
- gnu-web-doc-update \
- gnupload \
- hash \
- idx \
- ignore-value \
- intprops \
- inttypes-h \
- isatty \
- isblank \
- largefile \
- locale-h \
- lseek \
- maintainer-makefile \
- malloc-gnu \
- manywarnings \
- mbrlen \
- mbrtoc32-regular \
- mbszero \
- mcel-prefer \
- memchr \
- memchr2 \
- mempcpy \
- minmax \
- nullptr \
- obstack \
- openat-safer \
- perl \
- rawmemchr \
- readme-release \
- realloc-posix \
- regex \
- safe-read \
- same-inode \
- ssize_t \
- stdckdint-h \
- stddef-h \
- stdlib-h \
- stpcpy \
- strerror \
- string-h \
- strstr \
- sys_stat-h \
- threadlib \
- unistd-h \
- unlocked-io \
- update-copyright \
- useless-if-before-free \
- verify \
- version-etc-fsf \
- wchar-single \
- windows-stat-inodes \
- xalloc \
- xbinary-io \
- xstrtoimax \
- year2038
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.12/pass1.sh b/steps/grep-3.12/pass1.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index daf25fe7..00000000
--- a/steps/grep-3.12/pass1.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-src_prepare() {
-    default
-
-    find gnulib-tests -not -name "Makefile.am" -delete
-    rm doc/grep.info po/*.gmo
-
-    # cursed autotools order
-    # autopoint and libtoolize have to be run *before* gnulib
-    # and automake, etc after
-    find . \( -name 'Makefile.in' -o -name 'configure' \) -delete
-    autopoint -f
-    libtoolize -fi
-
-    . ../../import-gnulib.sh
-
-    AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true autoreconf-2.71 -fi
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-    ./configure --prefix="${PREFIX}"
-}
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.12/sources b/steps/grep-3.12/sources
deleted file mode 100644
index 29848c8a..00000000
--- a/steps/grep-3.12/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-f https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.12.tar.xz 2649b27c0e90e632eadcd757be06c6e9a4f48d941de51e7c0f83ff76408a07b9
-g https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git~3773db6 _ edc3d33a24008a96e7d745812659c4b89f2c89e8ea74688f1098eac5b40f7890 gnulib-3773db6.tar.gz
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt ff58e5823bd095166564a006e47d111130813dcf8bf234ef79fa51a870edb48f UnicodeData-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/PropList.txt 53d614508e2a0b2305a8aa21cd60d993de9326cdf65993660dfcce4503548583 PropList-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/DerivedCoreProperties.txt 39d35161f2954497f69e08bdb9e701493f476a3d30222de20028feda36c1dabd DerivedCoreProperties-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt f1365a5173eee18e1f98b240cdc492e84a25f1ce7e0c9d1094eb29c41a22696a emoji-data-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/ArabicShaping.txt 764f420cedfc8b43d9fec251c957a5d55fc45d40f6573f162990ed1dce7e36e0 ArabicShaping-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt 9e88f0a677df47311106340be8ede2ecdacd9c1c931831218d2be6d5508e0039 Scripts-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt f3907b395d410f1b97342292ca6bc83dd12eb4b205f2a0c48efdef99e517d7b0 Blocks-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update1/PropList-3.0.1.txt 909eef4adbeddbdddcd9487c856fe8cdbb8912aa8eb315ed7885b6ef65f4dc4c
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/BidiMirroring.txt d7afdadd1bbd66f5a663ac0e8f7958f18fd9491fc0bc59ec5877cb82db71db7d BidiMirroring-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt 43adc76c0686a42cb370764eb8cfe2b2a45b10b855e5572a2db4a0eecce15d5b EastAsianWidth-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/LineBreak.txt e97e4259d0d20fab150b9c7b4b28abfae5cd78ca97e7f4ac6ed20d685d5f4a7c LineBreak-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakProperty.txt 476464e71a4b7b779b8ba7c5671f4338fea77da8e6b6b05fb82b3fdd14603779 WordBreakProperty-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/auxiliary/GraphemeBreakProperty.txt c29360bd6f7132811d701d29069541e827eb44bfc4c8fbde8c370d6982689dc1 GraphemeBreakProperty-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/CompositionExclusions.txt 89e83cf9cc8bef6c1f8bf77e42cf6f0341dfa42e66261f4dbe9b492e7a23c8ee CompositionExclusions-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/SpecialCasing.txt 8d5de354eef79f2395a54c9c7dcebbaf3d30fc962d0f85611ea97aa973a0c451 SpecialCasing-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/CaseFolding.txt 6f1f9c588eb4a5c718d9e8f93b782685e5c7fec872cf05e8e6878053599e09bb CaseFolding-16.0.0.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/4.0-Update1/Blocks-4.0.1.txt c9dba71655b8787c381b3421ba2bf9a3df9e6168b5835f93fd3931c1eeff90cf Blocks-4.0.1.txt
-f http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/4.0-Update1/UnicodeData-4.0.1.txt de54d68f2df927a20ea4a83dfd74a543ca7f3e3df2441576e7f6a185ec6fa217 UnicodeData-4.0.1.txt
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.7/import-gnulib.sh b/steps/grep-3.7/import-gnulib.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2dc6e44e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/grep-3.7/import-gnulib.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+../gnulib-8f4538a5/gnulib-tool --import --local-dir=gl \
+  --lib=libgreputils \
+  --source-base=lib \
+  --m4-base=m4 \
+  --doc-base=doc \
+  --tests-base=gnulib-tests \
+  --aux-dir=build-aux \
+  --with-tests \
+  --makefile-name=gnulib.mk \
+  --no-conditional-dependencies \
+  --no-libtool \
+  --macro-prefix=gl \
+  --avoid=lock-tests \
+  --avoid=mbrtowc-tests \
+  --avoid=update-copyright-tests \
+  alloca \
+  announce-gen \
+  argmatch \
+  c-ctype \
+  c-stack \
+  c-strcase \
+  closeout \
+  configmake \
+  dfa \
+  dirname-lgpl \
+  do-release-commit-and-tag \
+  error \
+  exclude \
+  fcntl-h \
+  fdl \
+  fnmatch \
+  fstatat \
+  fts \
+  getopt-gnu \
+  getpagesize \
+  getprogname \
+  gettext-h \
+  git-version-gen \
+  gitlog-to-changelog \
+  gnu-web-doc-update \
+  gnupload \
+  hash \
+  ignore-value \
+  intprops \
+  inttypes \
+  isatty \
+  isblank \
+  iswctype \
+  largefile \
+  locale \
+  lseek \
+  maintainer-makefile \
+  malloc-gnu \
+  manywarnings \
+  mbrlen \
+  mbrtowc \
+  memchr \
+  memchr2 \
+  mempcpy \
+  minmax \
+  obstack \
+  openat-safer \
+  perl \
+  propername \
+  rawmemchr \
+  readme-release \
+  realloc-gnu \
+  regex \
+  safe-read \
+  same-inode \
+  ssize_t \
+  stddef \
+  stdlib \
+  stpcpy \
+  strerror \
+  string \
+  strstr \
+  strtoull \
+  strtoumax \
+  sys_stat \
+  unistd \
+  unlocked-io \
+  update-copyright \
+  useless-if-before-free \
+  verify \
+  version-etc-fsf \
+  wchar \
+  wcrtomb \
+  wctob \
+  wctype-h \
+  windows-stat-inodes \
+  xalloc \
+  xbinary-io \
+  xstrtoimax
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.7/pass1.sh b/steps/grep-3.7/pass1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f776c711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/grep-3.7/pass1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    rm configure
+    find . -name 'Makefile.in' -delete
+
+    ../../import-gnulib.sh
+
+    autoreconf-2.71 -fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./configure --prefix="${PREFIX}"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    default
+}
diff --git a/steps/grep-3.7/sources b/steps/grep-3.7/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4168e57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps/grep-3.7/sources
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+f https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.7.tar.xz 5c10da312460aec721984d5d83246d24520ec438dd48d7ab5a05dbc0d6d6823c
+g https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git~8f4538a5 _ e207c0bb72093c3a72dde302fcfaa1dbda12a62172d47b73565883a92209ebab gnulib-8f4538a5.tar.gz
diff --git a/steps/manifest b/steps/manifest
index 8b99df5a..7ee6e7cb 100644
--- a/steps/manifest
+++ b/steps/manifest
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ build: libunistring-1.4.1
 build: gc-8.2.12
 build: guile-3.0.11
 build: which-2.23
-build: grep-3.12
+build: grep-3.7
 build: sed-4.8
 build: autogen-5.18.16
 jump: break ( INTERNAL_CI == pass1 ) # scripts are generated in pass1