diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f36d1d4..1526187 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /tower-0.4.13.crate
 /tower-0.5.1.crate
+/tower-0.5.2.crate
diff --git a/rust-tower.spec b/rust-tower.spec
index 159f282..7f82305 100644
--- a/rust-tower.spec
+++ b/rust-tower.spec
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
-# Generated by rust2rpm 26
+# Generated by rust2rpm 27
 # * tests can only be run in-tree
-%bcond_with check
+%bcond check 0
 %global debug_package %{nil}
 
 %global crate tower
 
 Name:           rust-tower
-Version:        0.5.1
+Version:        0.5.2
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Modular and reusable components for building robust clients and servers
 
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/tower
 Source:         %{crates_source}
-# Manually created patch for downstream crate metadata changes
-# * bump sync_wrapper dependency from 0.1.1 to 1
-Patch:          tower-fix-metadata.diff
 
 BuildRequires:  cargo-rpm-macros >= 24
 
diff --git a/rust2rpm.toml b/rust2rpm.toml
index b42d542..2b7e40d 100644
--- a/rust2rpm.toml
+++ b/rust2rpm.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 [package]
 summary = "Modular and reusable components for building robust clients and servers"
-cargo-toml-patch-comments = [
-    "bump sync_wrapper dependency from 0.1.1 to 1",
-]
 
 [tests]
 run = ["none"]
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 165edaf..03de8ad 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (tower-0.5.1.crate) = 69e8926182f72775f9f30b2680e8ddce1133082c87123a39694d42b35c098a8ca1d003282c2bbee7aee30ce2531a96dd0734842d4d2233435be0a7a5bf7fe6f0
+SHA512 (tower-0.5.2.crate) = e89c4ffd83fec3566334a4c4e9151ddeabfd3437269afc8bffb46201391bc1cdc82cbb97c69643a30f8873e87c511ad9aefc6c081241a4419fe315c99c61ffce
diff --git a/tower-fix-metadata.diff b/tower-fix-metadata.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index ceca906..0000000
--- a/tower-fix-metadata.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- tower-0.5.1/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
-+++ tower-0.5.1/Cargo.toml	2024-10-08T20:20:09.795597+00:00
-@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
- optional = true
- 
- [dependencies.sync_wrapper]
--version = "0.1.1"
-+version = "1"
- optional = true
- 
- [dependencies.tokio]