diff --git a/async-compression-fix-metadata.diff b/async-compression-fix-metadata.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abf636c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/async-compression-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- async-compression-0.4.12/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ async-compression-0.4.12/Cargo.toml	2024-10-02T11:25:17.726384+00:00
+@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
+ ]
+ 
+ [dependencies.brotli]
+-version = "6.0"
++version = "7.0"
+ optional = true
+ 
+ [dependencies.bzip2]
diff --git a/rust-async-compression.spec b/rust-async-compression.spec
index c0f5753..fc05fb3 100644
--- a/rust-async-compression.spec
+++ b/rust-async-compression.spec
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Summary:        Adaptors between compression crates and Rust's modern asynchrono
 License:        MIT OR Apache-2.0
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/async-compression
 Source:         %{crates_source}
+# Manually created patch for downstream crate metadata changes
+# * Update brotli to 7.0:
+#   https://github.com/Nullus157/async-compression/pull/292
+Patch:          async-compression-fix-metadata.diff
 
 BuildRequires:  cargo-rpm-macros >= 24
 
diff --git a/rust2rpm.toml b/rust2rpm.toml
index 6bc4333..6ec0cfe 100644
--- a/rust2rpm.toml
+++ b/rust2rpm.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+[package]
+cargo-toml-patch-comments = [
+    "Update brotli to 7.0: https://github.com/Nullus157/async-compression/pull/292",
+]
+
 [features]
 enable-all = true