diff --git a/himmelblau.changes b/himmelblau.changes
index 81910bc..26284bf 100644
--- a/himmelblau.changes
+++ b/himmelblau.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 12 00:22:33 UTC 2024 - William Brown <william.brown@suse.com>
+
+- explicitly depend on cargo to pull in latest compiler revision
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 04 14:16:35 UTC 2024 - david.mulder@suse.com
 
diff --git a/himmelblau.spec b/himmelblau.spec
index a8b0fda..b60389d 100644
--- a/himmelblau.spec
+++ b/himmelblau.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ URL:            https://github.com/openSUSE/himmelblau
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        vendor.tar.zst
 Source2:        cargo_config
+BuildRequires:  cargo
 BuildRequires:  cargo-packaging
 BuildRequires:  clang-devel
 BuildRequires:  krb5-devel