diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cc3f74a..b2d5787 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@
 /orjson-3.10.12.tar.gz
 /orjson-3.10.13.tar.gz
 /orjson-3.10.14.tar.gz
+/orjson-3.10.16.tar.gz
diff --git a/orjson-fix-metadata.diff b/orjson-fix-metadata.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3116ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/orjson-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur orjson-3.10.16-original/Cargo.toml orjson-3.10.16/Cargo.toml
+--- orjson-3.10.16-original/Cargo.toml	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
++++ orjson-3.10.16/Cargo.toml	2025-04-02 20:09:24.874851253 -0400
+@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
+ [dependencies]
+ associative-cache = { version = "2", default-features = false }
+ bytecount = { version = "^0.6.7", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-dispatch-simd"] }
+-compact_str = { version = "0.9", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
++compact_str = { version = ">=0.8, <0.10", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
+ encoding_rs = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
+ half = { version = "2", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
+ itoa = { version = "1", default-features = false }
diff --git a/python-orjson.spec b/python-orjson.spec
index 99136a1..31d96a3 100644
--- a/python-orjson.spec
+++ b/python-orjson.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 %bcond pendulum %{undefined el10}
 
 Name:           python-orjson
-Version:        3.10.14
+Version:        3.10.16
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        Fast, correct Python JSON library
 
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ License:        Apache-2.0 OR MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/ijl/orjson
 Source:         %{pypi_source orjson}
 
+# Manual patches for Cargo.toml
+# - For now, allow compact_str 0.8;
+#   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2347456
+Patch:          orjson-fix-metadata.diff
+
 BuildRequires:  tomcli
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist pytest-forked}
@@ -89,8 +94,6 @@ tomcli-set Cargo.toml del 'features.avx512'
 # “Avoid bundling libgcc on musl.”
 tomcli-set Cargo.toml del 'features.unwind'
 tomcli-set Cargo.toml del 'dependencies.unwinding'
-# Remove strict dependencies
-sed -Ei 's|(version = ")=|\1|' Cargo.toml
 # Remove bundled rust crates
 rm -r include/cargo
 # Remove bundled yyjson.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 21c9858..e553587 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (orjson-3.10.14.tar.gz) = d186e95ac6750af9f2688744fe663e63973e06942fcbfc10deadc1d63a5ad59f437ea4e2485d1866bde6abcd59086fa5c1a0794d3ba975e693995d3ca58f0f76
+SHA512 (orjson-3.10.16.tar.gz) = ea71aa463206feae1a96bb604366af2f17ddb083a1a4b7cc87c1b8ad1f01b54bd5c4ef148e9472fed8d8308de37b2a4e4fe0b4a4290d19eaf4fc3ae5777791f9