diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 016e362..fd94aa1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /libssh2-sys-0.2.6.crate
 /libssh2-sys-0.2.7.crate
+/libssh2-sys-0.2.8.crate
diff --git a/0001-build.rs-always-use-pkg-config.patch b/0001-build.rs-always-use-pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6429f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-build.rs-always-use-pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From d8240c00ac455f22952a84b9febb80380d526a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:32:07 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] build.rs: always use pkg-config
+
+Signed-off-by: Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
+---
+ libssh2-sys/build.rs | 13 ++++---------
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libssh2-sys/build.rs b/libssh2-sys/build.rs
+index 1f5ed1a..b8509e8 100644
+--- a/libssh2-sys/build.rs
++++ b/libssh2-sys/build.rs
+@@ -18,16 +18,11 @@ fn main() {
+     register_dep("Z");
+     register_dep("OPENSSL");
+ 
+-    // The system copy of libssh2 is not used by default because it
+-    // can lead to having two copies of libssl loaded at once.
+-    // See https://github.com/alexcrichton/ssh2-rs/pull/88
+-    if env::var("LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG").is_ok() {
+-        if let Ok(lib) = pkg_config::find_library("libssh2") {
+-            for path in &lib.include_paths {
+-                println!("cargo:include={}", path.display());
+-            }
+-            return
++    if let Ok(lib) = pkg_config::find_library("libssh2") {
++        for path in &lib.include_paths {
++            println!("cargo:include={}", path.display());
+         }
++        return
+     }
+ 
+     if !Path::new("libssh2/.git").exists() {
+-- 
+2.18.0
+
diff --git a/libssh2-sys-0.2.7-fix-metadata.diff b/libssh2-sys-0.2.8-fix-metadata.diff
similarity index 58%
rename from libssh2-sys-0.2.7-fix-metadata.diff
rename to libssh2-sys-0.2.8-fix-metadata.diff
index d688769..4580d8c 100644
--- a/libssh2-sys-0.2.7-fix-metadata.diff
+++ b/libssh2-sys-0.2.8-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---- libssh2-sys-0.2.7/Cargo.toml	1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00
-+++ libssh2-sys-0.2.7/Cargo.toml	2018-05-03T17:58:04.584951-07:00
+--- libssh2-sys-0.2.8/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00
++++ libssh2-sys-0.2.8/Cargo.toml	2018-07-14T09:25:47.440043+02:00
 @@ -33,7 +33,5 @@
  
  [build-dependencies.pkg-config]
- version = "0.3"
+ version = "0.3.11"
 -[target."cfg(target_env = \"msvc\")".build-dependencies.vcpkg]
 -version = "0.2"
  [target."cfg(unix)".dependencies.openssl-sys]
diff --git a/rust-libssh2-sys.spec b/rust-libssh2-sys.spec
index 33854b6..688e288 100644
--- a/rust-libssh2-sys.spec
+++ b/rust-libssh2-sys.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %global crate libssh2-sys
 
 Name:           rust-%{crate}
-Version:        0.2.7
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        0.2.8
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Native bindings to the libssh2 library
 
 # https://github.com/alexcrichton/ssh2-rs/issues/75
@@ -15,18 +15,20 @@ URL:            https://crates.io/crates/libssh2-sys
 Source0:        https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/%{crate}/%{version}/download#/%{crate}-%{version}.crate
 # Initial patched metadata
 # * No Windows
-Patch0:         libssh2-sys-0.2.7-fix-metadata.diff
+Patch0:         libssh2-sys-0.2.8-fix-metadata.diff
+# # Doesn't seem to be upstreamable
+Patch1:         0001-build.rs-always-use-pkg-config.patch
 
 ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches}
 
 BuildRequires:  rust-packaging
 # [dependencies]
 BuildRequires:  (crate(libc) >= 0.2.0 with crate(libc) < 0.3.0)
-BuildRequires:  crate(libz-sys) >= 0.0.0
+BuildRequires:  (crate(libz-sys) >= 1.0.18 with crate(libz-sys) < 2.0.0)
 BuildRequires:  (crate(openssl-sys) >= 0.9.0 with crate(openssl-sys) < 0.10.0)
 # [build-dependencies]
 BuildRequires:  (crate(cmake) >= 0.1.2 with crate(cmake) < 0.2.0)
-BuildRequires:  (crate(pkg-config) >= 0.3.0 with crate(pkg-config) < 0.4.0)
+BuildRequires:  (crate(pkg-config) >= 0.3.11 with crate(pkg-config) < 0.4.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libssh2)
 
 %description
@@ -44,9 +46,11 @@ This package contains library source intended for building other packages
 which use %{crate} from crates.io.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n %{crate}-%{version} -p1
+%autosetup -n %{crate}-%{version} -N
 # No bundled deps
 rm -vrf libssh2/
+%patch0 -p1
+%patch1 -p2
 %cargo_prep
 
 %build
@@ -64,6 +68,9 @@ rm -vrf libssh2/
 %{cargo_registry}/%{crate}-%{version}/
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 14 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.8-1
+- Update to 0.2.8
+
 * Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.7-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2125d50..5b6698f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libssh2-sys-0.2.7.crate) = 817d6897aeaa92fea77ed5b23df68f5f10760f2f342947b178aa460fe3a75aee6913ec1ad7e34d52a1523637b7f3672a8e28f59c05ed03db1caee256ba76a45d
+SHA512 (libssh2-sys-0.2.8.crate) = 78390949c1adfde166b164da83e1b4b3c1e6c8fcca339dc12fcb57b96c49159a7aaf375bccbb279fe3fb604541386d242e4c8c5652306c18927f122dd9dc0051