diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 80276721..edbf4e84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 8.0.4
+
+* Fix tracing span annotations.
+
 ## 8.0.3
 
 * Box large futures to reduce stack usage.
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a91d182c..f0eb5365 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fred"
-version = "8.0.3"
+version = "8.0.4"
 authors = ["Alec Embke <aembke@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "An async Redis client built on Tokio."
diff --git a/src/trace/enabled.rs b/src/trace/enabled.rs
index 40dfeada..e0867208 100644
--- a/src/trace/enabled.rs
+++ b/src/trace/enabled.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ pub fn set_network_span(inner: &Arc<RedisClientInner>, command: &mut RedisComman
 }
 
 pub fn record_response_size(span: &Span, frame: &Frame) {
-  span.record("res_size", protocol_utils::resp3_frame_size(frame));
+  #[allow(clippy::needless_borrows_for_generic_args)]
+  span.record("res_size", &protocol_utils::resp3_frame_size(frame));
 }
 
 pub fn create_command_span(inner: &Arc<RedisClientInner>) -> Span {
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index a704b9d1..ef17e29e 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ where
 
 /// Send a command to the server, with tracing.
 #[cfg(any(feature = "full-tracing", feature = "partial-tracing"))]
+#[allow(clippy::needless_borrows_for_generic_args)]
+// despite what clippy says, this^ actually matters for tracing `record` calls (at least it seems where `V: Copy`)
 pub async fn request_response<C, F, R>(client: &C, func: F) -> Result<Resp3Frame, RedisError>
 where
   C: ClientLike,
@@ -458,18 +460,19 @@ where
 
   let (mut command, rx, req_size) = {
     let args_span = trace::create_args_span(cmd_span.id(), inner);
-    let _enter = args_span.enter();
+    #[allow(clippy::let_unit_value)]
+    let _guard = args_span.enter();
     let (tx, rx) = oneshot_channel();
 
     let mut command: RedisCommand = func()?.into();
     command.response = ResponseKind::Respond(Some(tx));
 
     let req_size = protocol_utils::args_size(command.args());
-    args_span.record("num_args", command.args().len());
+    args_span.record("num_args", &command.args().len());
     (command, rx, req_size)
   };
-  cmd_span.record("cmd", command.kind.to_str_debug());
-  cmd_span.record("req_size", req_size);
+  cmd_span.record("cmd", &command.kind.to_str_debug());
+  cmd_span.record("req_size", &req_size);
 
   let queued_span = trace::create_queued_span(cmd_span.id(), inner);
   let timed_out = command.timed_out.clone();