diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8933129..1429bce 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /cramjam-2.9.1.tar.gz
 /cramjam-61564e7761e38e5ec55e7939ccd6a276c2c55d11-filtered.tar.gz
 /cramjam-cdc7d307d0f592f89b3319a7037fd875a5371ef3-filtered.tar.gz
+/cramjam-2.10.0rc1.tar.gz
diff --git a/203.patch b/203.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 90989ec..0000000
--- a/203.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From 06a941b8f1c8a96193a6db3a932f6978e218aad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: "Benjamin A. Beasley" <code@musicinmybrain.net>
-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:46:13 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Bump libcramjam -> 0.7 (in Cargo.toml, to match Cargo.lock)
-
----
- Cargo.toml | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
-index 8aa745e7..cf64bfb6 100644
---- a/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/Cargo.toml
-@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ wasm32-compat            = ["libcramjam/wasm32-compat"]
- 
- [dependencies]
- pyo3 = { version = "^0.23", default-features = false, features = ["macros"] }
--libcramjam = { version = "^0.6", default-features = false }
-+libcramjam = { version = "^0.7", default-features = false }
- 
- [build-dependencies]
- pyo3-build-config = "^0.23"
diff --git a/python-cramjam.spec b/python-cramjam.spec
index 7d70c72..aacf4d1 100644
--- a/python-cramjam.spec
+++ b/python-cramjam.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 %bcond tests 1
 
-%global commit cdc7d307d0f592f89b3319a7037fd875a5371ef3
-%global snapdate 20250222
+#global commit xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+#global snapdate YYYYMMDD
 
 Name:           python-cramjam
-Version:        2.10.0~%{snapdate}git%{sub %{commit} 1 7}
+Version:        2.10.0~rc1
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Thin Python bindings to de/compression algorithms in Rust
 
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ Source1:        get_source
 
 %endif
 
-# Bump libcramjam -> 0.7 (in Cargo.toml, to match Cargo.lock)
-# https://github.com/milesgranger/cramjam/pull/203
-Patch:          %{url}/pull/203.patch
-
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  tomcli
 BuildRequires:  cargo-rpm-macros >= 24
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6823acd..c425e36 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (cramjam-cdc7d307d0f592f89b3319a7037fd875a5371ef3-filtered.tar.gz) = 913310ecd2541db0c7cc1232d53b9eb866573a91d87c7be505c7360f7276a0c9484b02232d0364aa531c059252f549acf49b0cc7c468ca638b7adaff73a8abaa
+SHA512 (cramjam-2.10.0rc1.tar.gz) = b1aa5481d0c4d0c44389f20bc2933d8b6979636dfaf2aca1ef83abb462134f2ab421993a5730471b58b49e55614100bb8279916ed68f4a7477453b82407a7c0a