diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a994170..76339f7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /wmidi-4.0.6.crate
+/wmidi-4.0.8.crate
diff --git a/15.patch b/15.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fe19e66..0000000
--- a/15.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-From e8e4a13990e14d6f0cf52e122bdf4e2edfdf951c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Davide Cavalca <dcavalca@fedoraproject.org>
-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 09:16:32 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] Add license text
-
----
- LICENSE | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
- create mode 100644 LICENSE
-
-diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..468cd79
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/LICENSE
-@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
-+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
-+person obtaining a copy of this software and associated
-+documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the
-+Software without restriction, including without
-+limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
-+publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
-+the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software
-+is furnished to do so, subject to the following
-+conditions:
-+
-+The above copyright notice and this permission notice
-+shall be included in all copies or substantial portions
-+of the Software.
-+
-+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
-+ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
-+TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
-+PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
-+SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
-+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
-+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR
-+IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
-+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5066898..0000000
--- a/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# rust-wmidi
-
-The rust-wmidi package
diff --git a/rust-wmidi.spec b/rust-wmidi.spec
index 665d332..3588df6 100644
--- a/rust-wmidi.spec
+++ b/rust-wmidi.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %global crate wmidi
 
 Name:           rust-wmidi
-Version:        4.0.6
+Version:        4.0.8
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Midi parsing library
 
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ License:        MIT
 URL:            https://crates.io/crates/wmidi
 Source:         %{crates_source}
 # Manually created patch for downstream crate metadata changes
-# * drop criterion dependency
+# * drop unused, benchmark-only criterion dev-dependency to speed up builds
 Patch:          wmidi-fix-metadata.diff
-# Add license text
-Patch:          https://github.com/RustAudio/wmidi/pull/15.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  rust-packaging >= 21
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 58e6b62..5efc2af 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (wmidi-4.0.6.crate) = 3a1cd02495c7358bb2c8eb4598bc519a2b3f496a2eb7b6d8a6a676beb1fac724b38cdb4b7cd68926c9fb5bf0d73c3cdfd8051ce02893834e556624394ae8dfae
+SHA512 (wmidi-4.0.8.crate) = fe78c35c584df63de7fe0742fa823ff5b006f4113a3366a94902092912f7e91a12473133ba3af7ca6017d27361daefcce850e1a5fcbb2c2a43e3979c585cfa46
diff --git a/wmidi-fix-metadata.diff b/wmidi-fix-metadata.diff
index 95f4ff1..435ba40 100644
--- a/wmidi-fix-metadata.diff
+++ b/wmidi-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
---- wmidi-4.0.6/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
-+++ wmidi-4.0.6/Cargo.toml	2023-07-22T16:20:04.331461+00:00
-@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@
- harness = false
+--- wmidi-4.0.8/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ wmidi-4.0.8/Cargo.toml	2023-08-30T13:29:10.154544+00:00
+@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@
  
  [dependencies]
+ 
 -[dev-dependencies.criterion]
 -version = "0.3"
- 
+-
  [features]
  default = ["std"]
+ std = []