diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 66c0a2aeba7..a8ce6a61330 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ libQt5EglFsKmsSupport.so.5 qt5-5.7.1_1
 libQt5WebKit.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKitWidgets.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5TextToSpeech.so.5 qt5-speech-5.8.0_1
-libx265.so.151 x265-2.7_1
+libx265.so.160 x265-2.8_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.3 libqtxdg-3.1.0_1
 libQt5XdgIconLoader.so.3 libqtxdg-3.1.0_1
 libqwt.so.6 qwt-6.1.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 379d08bf955..6102dd9f975 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=2.7
+version=2.8
 revision=1
-build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
 wrksrc="x265_${version}"
+build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DENABLE_PIC=1"
 hostmakedepends="yasm"
 short_desc="Open Source H.265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
+license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://x265.org/"
-license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=d5e75fa62ffe6ed49e691f8eb8ab8c1634ffcc0725dd553c6fdb4d5443b494a2
+checksum=6e59f9afc0c2b87a46f98e33b5159d56ffb3558a49d8e3d79cb7fdc6b7aaa863
 
-if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 	configure_args+=" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=${CROSS_BUILD%-musl}"
 fi
 
 pre_configure() {
-	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 		sed -i CMakeLists.txt -e "s; -mcpu=native;;"
 	fi
 }
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ x265-devel_package() {
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
 	}
 }