diff --git a/recipes/sylph/build.sh b/recipes/sylph/build.sh
index 3662f6efb60db..bdab29de4ab9e 100644
--- a/recipes/sylph/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/sylph/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash -euo
 
-# Add workaround for SSH-based Git connections from Rust/cargo.  See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2078 for details.
-# We set CARGO_HOME because we don't pass on HOME to conda-build, thus rendering the default "${HOME}/.cargo" defunct.
-export CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true CARGO_HOME="$(pwd)/.cargo"
-
 # build statically linked binary with Rust
 RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo install --verbose --path . --root $PREFIX
diff --git a/recipes/sylph/meta.yaml b/recipes/sylph/meta.yaml
index 06ecabc04a199..b6e2318d12140 100644
--- a/recipes/sylph/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/sylph/meta.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{% set version = "0.6.1" %}
+{% set version = "0.7.0" %}
 
 package:
   name: sylph
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ build:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph/archive/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 9f384ecf33d5eed57e518c1cc238ffb5ac68948dcf921731ba77ccbd02b57bdb
+  sha256: 8d0dd0c4b64de9b4c7402f6a44a019b2f54aae0626308a6b8831b3239640b609
 
 requirements:
   build:
     - {{ compiler("cxx") }}
-    - rust >=1.61
+    - {{ compiler("rust") }}
     - make
     - cmake >=3.12
 
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ test:
 about:
   home: https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph
   license: MIT
+  license_family: MIT
   summary: sylph quickly enables querying of genomes against even low-coverage shotgun metagenomes to find nearest neighbour ANI.  
   license_file: LICENSE
+  dev_url: https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph
 
 extra:
   recipe-maintainers:
     - bluenote-1577
-