diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ad2368b..5d2c29e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 /spin-0.9.4.crate
 /spin-0.9.5.crate
 /spin-0.9.6.crate
+/spin-0.9.7.crate
diff --git a/rust-spin.spec b/rust-spin.spec
index 21fe0b6..1cd529b 100644
--- a/rust-spin.spec
+++ b/rust-spin.spec
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@
 %global crate spin
 
 Name:           rust-spin
-Version:        0.9.6
+Version:        0.9.7
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Spin-based synchronization primitives
 
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/spin
 Source:         %{crates_source}
+# Manually created patch for downstream crate metadata changes
+# * drop unused, benchmark-only criterion dev-dependency to speed up builds
+Patch:          spin-fix-metadata.diff
 
 BuildRequires:  rust-packaging >= 21
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e48a085..12f3073 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (spin-0.9.6.crate) = 7c13ee886d6c9a85741dd7cb24a0c8965123de7a6c8af9d97b6a10a01ed4e5b06915ccf9160656e6af6f039e33b8932948f4e481896dee9570a6e9ccf8d890b8
+SHA512 (spin-0.9.7.crate) = 1abac9eb47829d03f752a7be88a5ddf0b9c8681f6c91ffb2083b4a2be1b06a74542a6d142e3b79282592495313c32652de59403bcaf83da62fb08fb83d10c779
diff --git a/spin-fix-metadata.diff b/spin-fix-metadata.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1a9306
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spin-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- spin-0.9.7/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ spin-0.9.7/Cargo.toml	2023-03-30T12:35:50.179429+00:00
+@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@
+ optional = true
+ default-features = false
+ 
+-[dev-dependencies.criterion]
+-version = "0.4"
+-
+ [features]
+ barrier = ["mutex"]
+ default = [