diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index 54ba4f81a2..7cfa2d616f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ libebml is a C++ library to read and write EBML files.")
 (define-public libva
   (package
     (name "libva")
-    (version "2.7.1")
+    (version "2.8.0")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ libebml is a C++ library to read and write EBML files.")
              (string-append "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/"
                             "libva/libva-" version "/libva-" version ".tar.bz2")))
        (sha256
-        (base32 "014av7ayyc624xfmr63xhbgg7nw8fynsswj1g2wmk4lnkyfz23x0"))))
+        (base32 "1hqy9pnz5jh3dz5r59358n9p2vfy8aj59wpwrj4qz43qs9215fxd"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))