diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index cc032d1c59a..1c011bcd1e4 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1893,7 +1893,7 @@ 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.160 x265-2.8_1
+libx265.so.165 x265-2.9_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/patches/fix-cross.patch b/srcpkgs/x265/patches/fix-cross.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e31968a5a80..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/patches/fix-cross.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- source/common/param.cpp.orig	2018-05-28 11:05:41.571934454 +0200
-+++ source/common/param.cpp	2018-05-28 11:05:47.109929916 +0200
-@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ int x265_param_parse(x265_param* p, cons
-         if (bValueWasNull)
-             p->cpuid = atobool(value);
-         else
--            p->cpuid = parseCpuName(value, bError);
-+            p->cpuid = parseCpuName(value, bError, false);
- #endif
-     }
-     OPT("fps")
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/patches/x265-2.9-detect512.patch b/srcpkgs/x265/patches/x265-2.9-detect512.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..852f81b7848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/patches/x265-2.9-detect512.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Source: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/media-libs/x265/files/x265-2.9-detect512.patch
+Upstream: No
+Reason: Fix cross build
+
+--- source/common/cpu.cpp
++++ source/common/cpu.cpp
+@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@
+     { "", 0 },
+ };
+ 
++bool detect512()
++{
++    return(enable512);
++}
++
+ #if X265_ARCH_X86
+ 
+ extern "C" {
+@@ -123,10 +128,6 @@
+ #pragma warning(disable: 4309) // truncation of constant value
+ #endif
+ 
+-bool detect512()
+-{
+-    return(enable512);
+-}
+ uint32_t cpu_detect(bool benableavx512 )
+ {
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 66f5114a622..007b5efd9fb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-reverts="2.9_1"
-version=2.8
-revision=3
-build_wrksrc=source
+version=2.9
+revision=1
 wrksrc="x265_${version}"
+build_wrksrc=source
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DENABLE_PIC=1"
 hostmakedepends="yasm"
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://x265.org/"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=6e59f9afc0c2b87a46f98e33b5159d56ffb3558a49d8e3d79cb7fdc6b7aaa863
+checksum=ebae687c84a39f54b995417c52a2fdde65a4e2e7ebac5730d251471304b91024
 
 pre_configure() {
 	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@ x265-devel_package() {
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
 		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
 	}
 }