diff --git a/0001-Fix-a-few-typos-that-cause-failure-to-compile-with-G.patch b/0001-Fix-a-few-typos-that-cause-failure-to-compile-with-G.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d337a29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Fix-a-few-typos-that-cause-failure-to-compile-with-G.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 8880ff435f69b515a57e60e8b7434dad9e47847e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Benjamin A. Beasley" <code@musicinmybrain.net>
+Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:49:20 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix a few typos that cause failure to compile with GCC 15
+
+These were eventually included in
+76120d16c00ae67128c3c69421ab712f985f3445, along with many other changes.
+---
+ arbor/include/arbor/util/expected.hpp | 2 +-
+ python/strprintf.hpp                  | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/arbor/include/arbor/util/expected.hpp b/arbor/include/arbor/util/expected.hpp
+index 9d860f65..1af88eb4 100644
+--- a/arbor/include/arbor/util/expected.hpp
++++ b/arbor/include/arbor/util/expected.hpp
+@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ struct expected<void, E> {
+     // Swap ops.
+ 
+     void swap(expected& other) {
+-        data_.swap(other.data);
++        data_.swap(other.data_);
+     }
+ 
+     // Accessors.
+diff --git a/python/strprintf.hpp b/python/strprintf.hpp
+index 63801677..2ccf12c1 100644
+--- a/python/strprintf.hpp
++++ b/python/strprintf.hpp
+@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ namespace impl {
+             for (auto& x: s.seq_) {
+                 if (!first) o << s.sep_;
+                 first = false;
+-                o << s.f(x);
++                o << s.f_(x);
+             }
+             return o;
+         }
+-- 
+2.47.1
+
diff --git a/arbor-0.9.0-pybind11-3.0.patch b/arbor-0.9.0-pybind11-3.0.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6fc58db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arbor-0.9.0-pybind11-3.0.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -Naur arbor-0.9.0-original/python/pyarb.hpp arbor-0.9.0/python/pyarb.hpp
+--- arbor-0.9.0-original/python/pyarb.hpp	2023-08-10 10:47:38.000000000 +0100
++++ arbor-0.9.0/python/pyarb.hpp	2025-11-03 08:24:00.093256311 +0000
+@@ -13,18 +13,6 @@
+ 
+ #include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
+ 
+-// Version check
+-#define mk_tok(x) #x
+-#define mk_ver(M, m, p) mk_tok(M) "." mk_tok(m) "." mk_tok(p)
+-#define PB11_ERR(M, m, p) "Required version of pybind11 is 2.8.1 <= version < 3.0.0 Found " mk_ver(M, m, p)
+-static_assert((PYBIND11_VERSION_HEX >= 0x02080100)
+-              &&
+-              (PYBIND11_VERSION_HEX  < 0x03000000),
+-              PB11_ERR(PYBIND11_VERSION_MAJOR, PYBIND11_VERSION_MINOR, PYBIND11_VERSION_PATCH));
+-#undef PB11_ERR
+-#undef mk_ver
+-#undef mk_tok
+-
+ namespace pyarb {
+ 
+ // Sample recorder object interface.
diff --git a/arbor.spec b/arbor.spec
index 36324fc..8e76de4 100644
--- a/arbor.spec
+++ b/arbor.spec
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Patch:          0001-Quote-various-cmake-var-values.patch
 # Tests are failing to compile due to some missing includes
 Patch:          fix-missing-includes.patch
+# Fix a few typos that cause failure to compile with GCC 15
+#
+# These were eventually included in
+# 76120d16c00ae67128c3c69421ab712f985f3445, along with many other changes.
+Patch:          0001-Fix-a-few-typos-that-cause-failure-to-compile-with-G.patch
+# Remove the hard-coded pybind11 version check so that we can build with
+# pybind11 3.0; this is part of https://github.com/arbor-sim/arbor/pull/2481.
+Patch:          arbor-0.9.0-pybind11-3.0.patch
 
 # Random123 does not support:
 #   mips64r2 mips32r2 s390
@@ -65,7 +73,6 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  Random123-devel
 BuildRequires:  tclap-devel
 BuildRequires:  pugixml-devel
-Provides:       python3-arbor = %{version}-%{release}
 
 # For validation, but we don't have these BRs
 # BuildRequires:  julia julia-sundials julia-unitful julia-JSON
@@ -79,6 +86,9 @@ BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist seaborn}
 # Required by arbor
 Requires:       %{py3_dist numpy}
 
+# Provide Python meta data for packages requiring arbor
+%py_provides python3-arbor
+
 %description %{_description}
 
 %package devel