diff --git a/srcpkgs/janet/patches/328.patch b/srcpkgs/janet/patches/328.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cb869f169bb..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/janet/patches/328.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-From 459e75bec840c1644f884795330ab7c3aca5a532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: q66 <daniel@octaforge.org>
-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:30:19 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix endian check for little endian PowerPC and maybe
- others
-
-This fixes various subtle breakage on ppc64le at very least.
----
- src/include/janet.h | 9 ++++++++-
- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/include/janet.h b/src/include/janet.h
-index 6d5b7de0..9fb9f416 100644
---- a/src/include/janet.h
-+++ b/src/include/janet.h
-@@ -97,7 +97,14 @@ extern "C" {
- #endif
- 
- /* Check big endian */
--#if defined(__MIPSEB__) /* MIPS 32-bit */ \
-+#if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN__) || \
-+    (defined(__BYTE_ORDER__) && (__BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__))
-+/* If we know the target is LE, always use that - e.g. ppc64 little endian
-+ * defines the __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ macro in the ABI spec, so we can rely
-+ * on that and if that's not defined, fall back to big endian assumption
-+ */
-+#define JANET_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
-+#elif defined(__MIPSEB__) /* MIPS 32-bit */ \
-     || defined(__ppc__) || defined(__PPC__) /* CPU(PPC) - PowerPC 32-bit */ \
-     || defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__powerpc) || defined(__POWERPC__) \
-     || defined(_M_PPC) || defined(__PPC) \
-
-From 12b183179a012554e07dce93c5b3d7173db54e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: q66 <daniel@octaforge.org>
-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:14:00 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Fix typo in big endian unmarshalling code
-
-This was subtly breaking everything.
----
- src/core/marsh.c | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/core/marsh.c b/src/core/marsh.c
-index d6d6353c..d9cd3f70 100644
---- a/src/core/marsh.c
-+++ b/src/core/marsh.c
-@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ static const uint8_t *unmarshal_one(
-             u.bytes[0] = data[8];
-             u.bytes[1] = data[7];
-             u.bytes[2] = data[6];
--            u.bytes[5] = data[5];
-+            u.bytes[3] = data[5];
-             u.bytes[4] = data[4];
-             u.bytes[5] = data[3];
-             u.bytes[6] = data[2];
-
-From 8b7c160e73fd4f17ff0393be61c04abebeb71717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: q66 <daniel@octaforge.org>
-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:19:51 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fix wrong check on big endian systems
-
-We can't randomly type pun random-sized types on big endian
-systems.
----
- src/include/janet.h | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/include/janet.h b/src/include/janet.h
-index 9fb9f416..d874cb53 100644
---- a/src/include/janet.h
-+++ b/src/include/janet.h
-@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ struct Janet {
- #define janet_type(x) ((x).type)
- #define janet_checktype(x, t) ((x).type == (t))
- #define janet_truthy(x) \
--    ((x).type != JANET_NIL && ((x).type != JANET_BOOLEAN || ((x).as.integer & 0x1)))
-+    ((x).type != JANET_NIL && ((x).type != JANET_BOOLEAN || ((x).as.u64 & 0x1)))
- 
- #define janet_unwrap_struct(x) ((const JanetKV *)(x).as.pointer)
- #define janet_unwrap_tuple(x) ((const Janet *)(x).as.pointer)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/janet/template b/srcpkgs/janet/template
index a640c751036..0c38b9fd330 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/janet/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/janet/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'janet'
 pkgname=janet
-version=1.8.0
+version=1.8.1
 revision=1
 build_style=meson
 short_desc="Dynamic Lisp dialect and bytecode VM"
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://janet-lang.org/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=e02ae5c7b4579a23e3f30636c16d248273ed119467a076d18c9362e858eb9812
+checksum=0f3ee438fb159d3081b38506e51df6406b355eb241c662ca1a3529dac0140b92
 patch_args="-Np1"
 
 post_install() {