diff --git a/python-mailmanclient.changes b/python-mailmanclient.changes
index 12f103e..b0d764b 100644
--- a/python-mailmanclient.changes
+++ b/python-mailmanclient.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Aug 20 20:38:15 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- Force pytest-asyncio auto mode -- 0.19.0 changed the default
+  * https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-asyncio#modes
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul  4 10:44:31 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-mailmanclient.spec b/python-mailmanclient.spec
index 2a283e4..fdd5acf 100644
--- a/python-mailmanclient.spec
+++ b/python-mailmanclient.spec
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 #     self.socket.send(msg)
 # OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-%pytest -k 'not using.rst'
+%if %{pkg_vcmp python3-pytest-asyncio >= 0.19}
+asynciomode="--asyncio-mode=auto"
+%endif
+%pytest -k 'not using.rst' $asynciomode
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %doc README.rst