diff --git a/flatpak.changes b/flatpak.changes
index 2b6efa3..c480b0a 100644
--- a/flatpak.changes
+++ b/flatpak.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  1 07:20:51 UTC 2022 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Drop pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4) BuildRequires: rely on the curl
+  backend. Following this, pass --with-curl to configure.
+- Add pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) BuildRequires, exsisting dependency,
+  previously pulled in by libsoup.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 30 19:50:38 UTC 2022 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/flatpak.spec b/flatpak.spec
index 275829f..da26cb5 100644
--- a/flatpak.spec
+++ b/flatpak.spec
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libarchive) >= 2.8.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcurl) >= 7.29.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libelf) >= 0.8.12
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libseccomp)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsystemd)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) >= 2.4
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libzstd) >= 0.8.1
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(ostree-1) >= 2020.8
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(polkit-gobject-1)
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ sed -i -e '1s,#!%{_bindir}/env python3,#!%{_bindir}/python3,' scripts/flatpak-*
 %configure \
 	--disable-silent-rules \
 	--with-system-bubblewrap \
+	--with-curl \
 	--with-priv-mode=none \
 	--with-dbus-config-dir=%{_dbusconfigdir} \
 	--with-system-dbus-proxy=%{_bindir}/xdg-dbus-proxy \