diff --git a/libvirt-10.2.0.tar.xz b/libvirt-10.2.0.tar.xz
index 211aa5a..b8657ed 100644
--- a/libvirt-10.2.0.tar.xz
+++ b/libvirt-10.2.0.tar.xz
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:08e31f93054311315ccf92542a1855079163bf31b78be7ba95fc5f5aef16d994
-size 9811684
+oid sha256:7d2abe3cf46dd4713da26ee5027a1463efe3536966083f8b4787e2213f2c976e
+size 9811456
diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index ac72742..0877957 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 12 21:02:53 UTC 2024 - James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
+
+- spec: Add 'Requires: netcat-openbsd' to libvirt-daemon-common
+  boo#1222100
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr  2 15:03:20 UTC 2024 - James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index 223f9d8..92dc309 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -337,6 +337,11 @@ Requires:       group(libvirt)
 # Needed by libvirt-guests init script.
 Requires:       gettext-runtime
 Requires:       bash-completion >= 2.0
+# virt-manager uses netcat for accessing spice and VNC servers running in
+# qemu processes. See boo#1222100 for details. Although libvirt does not
+# use netcat, it's in a good position to provide the dependency for
+# virt-manager. netcat-openbsd is a tiny package, so it's a tolerable hack.
+Requires:       netcat-openbsd
 
 %if %{with_apparmor}
 Recommends:     apparmor-abstractions
@@ -376,10 +381,6 @@ Server side daemon used to manage logs from virtual machine consoles
 %package daemon-proxy
 Summary:        Server side daemon providing libvirtd proxy
 Requires:       %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
-# netcat is needed on the server side so that clients that have
-# libvirt < 6.9.0 can connect, but newer versions will prefer
-# virt-ssh-helper
-Recommends:     netcat-openbsd
 
 %description daemon-proxy
 Server side daemon providing functionality previously provided by