diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c6ad300..5ae47d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cargo2rpm>=0.1.8
+cargo2rpm>=0.1.11
 jinja2
 jsonschema
 pyparsing
diff --git a/rust2rpm/crate.py b/rust2rpm/crate.py
index cba8d55..8d8fa3a 100644
--- a/rust2rpm/crate.py
+++ b/rust2rpm/crate.py
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import tarfile
 import tempfile
 from typing import Optional
 
-from cargo2rpm.metadata import Metadata
+from cargo2rpm.metadata import Metadata, Version, VersionReq
 
-from rust2rpm.cratesio import download_crate
+from rust2rpm.cratesio import download_crate, query_available_versions
 from rust2rpm import log
 from rust2rpm.patching import make_patches
 
@@ -196,6 +196,36 @@ def process_project_local(
     return name, version, diffs, metadata, doc_files, license_files
 
 
+def resolve_version(crate: str, version: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    # try parsing version as actual version
+    try:
+        resolved_version = Version.parse(version)
+        return str(resolved_version)
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+
+    # try parsing version as partial version
+    try:
+        parsed_version = VersionReq.parse(version)
+        log.info("Resolving partial version ...")
+
+        available_versions = query_available_versions(crate)
+        resolved_version = max(filter(lambda x: x in parsed_version, available_versions), default=None)
+
+        if resolved_version is None:
+            log.warn("Partial version does not match any available version.")
+            log.info("Falling back to latest version.")
+            return None
+
+        log.info(f"Partial version matched with available version: {resolved_version}")
+        return str(resolved_version)
+
+    except ValueError:
+        log.error(f"Invalid version: {version}")
+        log.info("Falling back to latest version.")
+        return None
+
+
 def process_project(
     project: str,
     version: Optional[str],
@@ -220,9 +250,15 @@ def process_project(
     else:
         # project is just a crate name
         name = project
-        # download .crate from crates.io;
-        # set version to the latest stable version if it was not specified
-        crate_file_path, version = download_crate(project, version)
+
+        # download .crate from crates.io
+        if version:
+            # version or partial version was specified
+            resolved_version = resolve_version(project, version)
+            crate_file_path, version = download_crate(project, resolved_version)
+        else:
+            # no version was specified: download latest
+            crate_file_path, version = download_crate(project, version)
 
     if store_crate:
         copy_target = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.path.basename(crate_file_path))
diff --git a/rust2rpm/cratesio.py b/rust2rpm/cratesio.py
index 82d79ad..9155153 100644
--- a/rust2rpm/cratesio.py
+++ b/rust2rpm/cratesio.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from urllib.parse import urljoin
 import requests
 import tqdm
 
+from cargo2rpm.semver import Version
+
 from rust2rpm import log
 from rust2rpm.utils import remove_on_error
 
@@ -18,6 +20,20 @@ class NoVersionsError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+def query_available_versions(crate: str, stable: bool = True) -> list[Version]:
+    url = urljoin(CRATES_IO_API_URL, f"crates/{crate}/versions")
+    req = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": "rust2rpm"})
+    req.raise_for_status()
+    versions = req.json()["versions"]
+
+    parsed_versions = map(lambda x: Version.parse(x["num"]), filter(lambda x: not x["yanked"], versions))
+
+    if stable:
+        return list(filter(lambda x: x.pre is None, parsed_versions))
+    else:
+        return list(parsed_versions)
+
+
 def query_newest_version(crate: str) -> str:
     url = urljoin(CRATES_IO_API_URL, f"crates/{crate}/versions")
     req = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": "rust2rpm"})
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index c99f7cf..34863eb 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ classifiers =
 include_package_data = True
 packages = rust2rpm
 install_requires =
-    cargo2rpm>=0.1.8
+    cargo2rpm>=0.1.11
     jinja2
     jsonschema
     pyparsing