diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 45a1e1c7906..fd007eb5695 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ libQt5WebEngine.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WaylandClient.so.5 qt5-wayland-5.4.0_1
-libx265.so.59 x265-1.7_1
+libx265.so.68 x265-1.8_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.1 libqtxdg-1.0.0_1
 liblxqt-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-0.8.0_1
 liblxqtmount-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-mount-0.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index a37abbe30f6..191d3496509 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=1.7
+version=1.8
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
-wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-8425278def1e"
+wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-e27327f5da35"
 hostmakedepends="yasm cmake"
 short_desc="Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=133dd4d7121116e75c1664e2295d61c36dee7569718a714f37caefc5a1a521db
+checksum=3d36472d9b41cdf04ae92eede1f1da2198432d0ebc2c29ec2da36d8bddaafb7e
 nocross=yes
 only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"  # CMakeList is utterly broken.