diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvirt/patches/socket-url-arguments.patch b/srcpkgs/libvirt/patches/socket-url-arguments.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a734bfd29f3..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libvirt/patches/socket-url-arguments.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff --git src/remote/remote_daemon.c src/remote/remote_daemon.c
-index 546328b24d..5d64397062 100644
---- src/remote/remote_daemon.c
-+++ src/remote/remote_daemon.c
-@@ -226,14 +226,14 @@ daemonUnixSocketPaths(struct daemonConfig *config,
- 
-     if (config->unix_sock_dir) {
-         if (virAsprintf(sockfile, "%s/%s-sock",
--                        SOCK_PREFIX, config->unix_sock_dir) < 0)
-+                        config->unix_sock_dir, SOCK_PREFIX) < 0)
-             goto cleanup;
- 
-         if (privileged) {
-             if (virAsprintf(rosockfile, "%s/%s-sock-ro",
--                            SOCK_PREFIX, config->unix_sock_dir) < 0 ||
-+                            config->unix_sock_dir, SOCK_PREFIX) < 0 ||
-                 virAsprintf(admsockfile, "%s/%s-admin-sock",
--                            SOCK_PREFIX, config->unix_sock_dir) < 0)
-+                            config->unix_sock_dir, SOCK_PREFIX) < 0)
-                 goto cleanup;
-         }
-     } else {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
index 0e7f8df0e1c..c9b271fe4d1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'libvirt'
 pkgname=libvirt
-version=5.7.0
-revision=2
+version=5.8.0
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--without-hal --with-storage-lvm --with-qemu
  --with-qemu-user=libvirt --with-qemu-group=libvirt --without-netcf
@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 homepage="https://libvirt.org"
 changelog="https://libvirt.org/news.html"
 distfiles="https://libvirt.org/sources/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=7e91f23574c73f0da8812917922d45af1044dbe31d2526aa34e2ff29bfef62e0
+checksum=e23328289b18bdedc1e966f6c26402b2983149c660ed8bd52cda6feab0c20c55
 
 # FIX https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=701649
 system_accounts="libvirt"
 libvirt_groups="disk,kvm"
 
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool perl pkg-config lvm2 parted gettext-devel
- iptables libxslt docbook-xsl dnsmasq python"
+ iptables libxslt docbook-xsl dnsmasq python3"
 makedepends="readline-devel libcap-ng-devel libnl3-devel attr-devel
  gnutls-devel libsasl-devel libcurl-devel libpcap-devel libxml2-devel
  libparted-devel device-mapper-devel dbus-devel eudev-libudev-devel libblkid-devel
  libpciaccess-devel avahi-libs-devel polkit-devel yajl-devel jansson-devel
- python-devel libssh2-devel fuse-devel libtirpc-devel
+ python3-devel libssh2-devel fuse-devel libtirpc-devel
  libapparmor-devel"
 depends="iptables dnsmasq"
 
@@ -74,6 +74,6 @@ libvirt-devel_package() {
 		vmove usr/include
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-		vmove usr/share/gtk-doc
+		vmove usr/share/doc
 	}
 }