diff --git a/srcpkgs/flake8/template b/srcpkgs/flake8/template
index 28ccdd35fd9..4834f0a0bf5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/flake8/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/flake8/template
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'flake8'
 pkgname=flake8
-version=3.7.9
-revision=2
+version=3.8.1
+revision=1
 archs=noarch
 build_style=python3-module
-pycompile_module="flake8"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
-depends="python3-setuptools python3-pycodestyle>=2.5.0<2.6.0
- python3-pyflakes>=2.1.0<2.2.0 python3-mccabe>=0.6.0<0.7.0
+depends="python3-setuptools python3-pycodestyle>=2.6.0<2.7.0
+ python3-pyflakes>=2.2.0<2.3.0 python3-mccabe>=0.6.0<0.7.0
  python3-entrypoints>=0.3<0.4"
 short_desc="Modular source code checker: pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe"
 maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/f/flake8/flake8-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=45681a117ecc81e870cbf1262835ae4af5e7a8b08e40b944a8a6e6b895914cfb
+checksum=ea6623797bf9a52f4c9577d780da0bb17d65f870213f7b5bcc9fca82540c31d5
 
 pre_build() {
 	vsed -i '/setup_requires/d' setup.py