diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index f11b7ea1e5f..995b1f9f0d6 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 qt5-5.6.0_1
 libQt5EglDeviceIntegration.so.5 qt5-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKit.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKitWidgets.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
-libx265.so.87 x265-2.0_1
+libx265.so.95 x265-2.1_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.2 libqtxdg-2.0.0_1
 libQt5XdgIconLoader.so.2 libqtxdg-2.0.0_1
 liblxqt-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-0.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index e8ffd8b1fd6..9e9569ab7f3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=2.0
+version=2.1
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
-wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-960c9991d0dc"
+wrksrc="x265_${version}"
 hostmakedepends="yasm"
-short_desc="Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder"
+short_desc="Open Source H.265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265"
 license="GPL-2"
-distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=67a681ae9907002712075c0ad149f0b4f84333ebc4b37ccee6385804760d2d64
+distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=88fcb9af4ba52c0757ac9c0d8cd5ec79951a22905ae886897e06954353d6a643
 nocross=yes
 only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"  # CMakeList is utterly broken.