diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5aed4e4..a250cdb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@
 /http-0.2.6.crate
 /http-0.2.7.crate
 /http-0.2.8.crate
+/http-0.2.9.crate
diff --git a/http-fix-metadata.diff b/http-fix-metadata.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 9454445..0000000
--- a/http-fix-metadata.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- http-0.2.8/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
-+++ http-0.2.8/Cargo.toml	2022-11-04T17:52:55.248049+00:00
-@@ -63,9 +63,6 @@
- [dependencies.itoa]
- version = "1"
- 
--[dev-dependencies.criterion]
--version = "0.3.2"
--
- [dev-dependencies.doc-comment]
- version = "0.3"
- 
diff --git a/rust-http.spec b/rust-http.spec
index d1dbadc..0468f38 100644
--- a/rust-http.spec
+++ b/rust-http.spec
@@ -1,25 +1,22 @@
-# Generated by rust2rpm 23
+# Generated by rust2rpm 24
 %bcond_without check
 %global debug_package %{nil}
 
 %global crate http
 
 Name:           rust-http
-Version:        0.2.8
+Version:        0.2.9
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Set of types for representing HTTP requests and responses
 
 License:        MIT OR Apache-2.0
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/http
 Source:         %{crates_source}
-# Manually created patch for downstream crate metadata changes
-# * drop unused, benchmark-only criterion dev-dependency to speed up builds
-Patch:          http-fix-metadata.diff
 
 BuildRequires:  rust-packaging >= 21
 
 %global _description %{expand:
-Set of types for representing HTTP requests and responses.}
+A set of types for representing HTTP requests and responses.}
 
 %description %{_description}
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 70ef13f..7a336dc 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (http-0.2.8.crate) = 8e8d01803552299807b07a9fddb45d92af089e43344eecacf2bee07b0e745f33558d26a5cde987ac0dd50f939fdac2de6855c8b44f7362e86d05efdde8a7d956
+SHA512 (http-0.2.9.crate) = 17bbc886d34f5aa4b56d82a605a54e920a244988085d06e70bc416f8e0edfa3356544f29082b3fbf3dcea18e741ade374375dd82ebe2276fd9a9508735a1e03a