diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
index 0cee081ab..af268acdb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
@@ -661,6 +661,93 @@ jobs:
           || 'false'
         }}
 
+  build-bin-manylinux-tested-arches-cibuildwheel:
+    name: >-
+      [cibuildwheel] 📦 ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
+      [mode: ${{
+        fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.is-untagged-devel)
+        && 'nightly' || ''
+      }}${{
+        fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+        && 'release' || ''
+      }}${{
+        (
+          !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.is-untagged-devel)
+          && !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+        ) && 'test' || ''
+      }}] manylinux
+    needs:
+    - build-src
+    - pre-setup  # transitive, for accessing settings
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os:
+        - ubuntu-latest
+        wheel-tags-to-skip:
+        - >-
+          ${{
+          !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+          && '*_i686
+          *-macosx_universal2
+          *-musllinux_*
+          *-win32
+          *_arm64
+          *-*linux_{aarch64,ppc64le,s390x}
+          pp*'
+          || ''
+          }}
+        - >-
+          ${{
+          !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+          && '*_i686
+          *-macosx_universal2
+          *-musllinux_*
+          *-win32
+          *_arm64
+          *-*linux_{x86_64,ppc64le,s390x}
+          pp*'
+          || ''
+          }}
+        - >-
+          ${{
+          !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+          && '*_i686
+          *-macosx_universal2
+          *-musllinux_*
+          *-win32
+          *_arm64
+          *-*linux_{x86_64,aarch64,s390x}
+          pp*'
+          || ''
+          }}
+        - >-
+          ${{
+          !fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.release-requested)
+          && '*_i686
+          *-macosx_universal2
+          *-musllinux_*
+          *-win32
+          *_arm64
+          *-*linux_{x86_64,aarch64,ppc64le}
+          pp*'
+          || ''
+          }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-cibuildwheel.yml
+    with:
+      os: ${{ matrix.os }}
+      wheel-tags-to-skip: ${{ matrix.wheel-tags-to-skip }}
+      source-tarball-name: >-
+        ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.sdist-artifact-name }}
+      dists-artifact-name: >-
+        ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.dists-artifact-name }}
+      qemu: all
+      cython-tracing: >-  # Cython line tracing for coverage collection
+        ${{
+          fromJSON(needs.pre-setup.outputs.profiling-enabled)
+          && 'true'
+          || 'false'
+        }}
+
   build-bin-manylinux-tested-arches:
     name: >-
       📦 ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-cibuildwheel.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-cibuildwheel.yml
index f40629ab9..27bb0d99b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-cibuildwheel.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-cibuildwheel.yml
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ jobs:
         echo "CIBW_ARCHS_LINUX=${{ inputs.qemu }}" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
       shell: bash
 
-    # - name: Skip building some wheel tags
-    #   if: inputs.wheel-tags-to-skip
-    #   run: |
-    #     echo "CIBW_SKIP=${{ inputs.wheel-tags-to-skip }}" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
-    #   shell: bash
+    - name: Skip building some wheel tags
+      if: inputs.wheel-tags-to-skip
+      run: |
+        echo "CIBW_SKIP=${{ inputs.wheel-tags-to-skip }}" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
+      shell: bash
 
     - name: Build wheels
       uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.16.5
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ jobs:
         CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS: native
         CIBW_CONFIG_SETTINGS: >-  # Cython line tracing for coverage collection
           with-cython-tracing=${{ inputs.cython-tracing }}
+      timeout-minutes: 120
 
     - name: Upload built artifacts for testing and publishing
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9ccc99803..f5e258d43 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ profile = "True"
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 build-frontend = "build"
 test-requires = "pytest pytest-cov pytest-xdist pytest-forked"
-test-command = "python -Im pytest -m smoke --no-cov {project}/tests"
+test-command = "python -Im pytest -m smoke --no-cov -n 0 {project}/tests"
 skip = "pp*"
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel.environment]
@@ -158,6 +158,32 @@ PIP_NO_WARN_SCRIPT_LOCATION = "1"
 PRE_COMMIT_COLOR = "always"
 PY_COLORS = "1"
 
+[tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
+before-build = [
+  "env",
+  "export",
+]
+manylinux-aarch64-image = "ghcr.io/ansible/pylibssh-manylinux_2_28_aarch64:libssh-v0.9.6"
+manylinux-ppc64le-image = "ghcr.io/ansible/pylibssh-manylinux_2_28_ppc64le:libssh-v0.9.6"
+manylinux-s390x-image = "ghcr.io/ansible/pylibssh-manylinux_2_28_s390x:libssh-v0.9.6"
+manylinux-x86_64-image = "ghcr.io/ansible/pylibssh-manylinux_2_28_x86_64:libssh-v0.9.6"
+skip = [
+  "*-musllinux_*",  # FIXME: musllinux needs us to provide with containers pre-built libssh
+  "pp*",  # FIXME: we don't ship these currently but could
+
+  # The support for 32-bit wheels has been dropped long ago:
+  "*-manylinux_i686",
+  "*-musllinux_i686",
+]
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.linux.environment]
+STATIC_DEPS_DIR = "$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)"
+# LDFLAGS = "'-L${STATIC_DEPS_PREFIX}/lib64' '-L${STATIC_DEPS_PREFIX}/lib'"
+# LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${STATIC_DEPS_PREFIX}/lib64:${STATIC_DEPS_PREFIX}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+CFLAGS="'-I$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)/include'"
+LDFLAGS = "'-L$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)/lib64' '-L$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)/lib'"
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)/lib64:$(cat /root/.static-deps-path)/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+
 [tool.cibuildwheel.macos]
 before-build = [
   "brew install libssh",  # @0.9.4  # pinning the version does not work