diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 562cd89..ed7686c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /tokio-util-0.6.9.crate
 /tokio-util-0.7.1.crate
 /tokio-util-0.7.2.crate
+/tokio-util-0.7.3.crate
diff --git a/rust-tokio-util.spec b/rust-tokio-util.spec
index 3e14d1a..c6eb6b0 100644
--- a/rust-tokio-util.spec
+++ b/rust-tokio-util.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 %global crate tokio-util
 
 Name:           rust-%{crate}
-Version:        0.7.2
+Version:        0.7.3
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Additional utilities for working with Tokio
 
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Summary:        Additional utilities for working with Tokio
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/tokio-util
 Source:         %{crates_source}
+# Initial patched metadata
+# * drop unstable-only hashbrown dependency
+Patch0:         tokio-util-fix-metadata.diff
 
 ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches}
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 1923238..e7209e8 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (tokio-util-0.7.2.crate) = c67c0ef7fa90a07503f932c2d11e27077570681abf6ad82773e0408c2f7751feda4208dcf86ea1ceef721591541a25328ba1b38a34653f4196433f2314549d87
+SHA512 (tokio-util-0.7.3.crate) = 5c179fe85af6323c4080fdeb119847078b896e5416c0ea6440090ac829bb02f4b9cf4c983ede8eeb8bd628ab9f8acd96d02e2be0ac8d7449fc4011abb2894982
diff --git a/tokio-util-fix-metadata.diff b/tokio-util-fix-metadata.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bf8254
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tokio-util-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--- tokio-util-0.7.3/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ tokio-util-0.7.3/Cargo.toml	2022-07-16T12:43:18.189939+00:00
+@@ -115,13 +115,8 @@
+     "tokio/rt",
+     "tokio/sync",
+     "futures-util",
+-    "hashbrown",
+ ]
+ time = [
+     "tokio/time",
+     "slab",
+ ]
+-
+-[target."cfg(tokio_unstable)".dependencies.hashbrown]
+-version = "0.12.0"
+-optional = true