diff --git a/utils/xz/Makefile b/utils/xz/Makefile
index c1ff4fa24a..f325c31fcc 100644
--- a/utils/xz/Makefile
+++ b/utils/xz/Makefile
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=xz
-PKG_VERSION:=5.6.2
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=5.8.1
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@SF/lzmautils
-PKG_HASH:=e12aa03cbd200597bd4ce11d97be2d09a6e6d39a9311ce72c91ac7deacde3171
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/download/v$(PKG_VERSION) \
+		@SF/lzmautils
+PKG_HASH:=5965c692c4c8800cd4b33ce6d0f6ac9ac9d6ab227b17c512b6561bce4f08d47e
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=
 PKG_LICENSE:=Public-Domain LGPL-2.1-or-later 0BSD
diff --git a/utils/xz/patches/010-libtool.patch b/utils/xz/patches/010-libtool.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dcb954914b..0000000000
--- a/utils/xz/patches/010-libtool.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Fix shared library building in XZ Utils 5.2.13, 5.4.7, and 5.6.2
-#
-# The releases were made with a development version of GNU Libtool
-# (2.5.0+1+g38c166c8). The benefit is that there tend to be fixes that
-# aren't in a stable release yet. At the same time there is a higher
-# risk of new bugs. Unfortunately there was a bug that breaks building
-# of shared libraries on some systems like mips64.
-#
-# This patch was made by taking the upstream commit to m4/libtool.m4
-# and then running "autoconf" to update the generated "configure".
-# This patch only modifies "configure" so that the changed timestamps
-# won't cause the build system to regenerate more files, which would
-# only work if one has all Autotools packages installed.
-#
-# https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=9a4a02615c9e7cbcfd690ed31874822a7d6aaea2
-# https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/3299713.44csPzL39Z@pinacolada/
-
---- a/configure
-+++ b/configure
-@@ -9475,7 +9475,7 @@ do
-   esac
-     for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-   if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
--    ac_cv_prog_FILECMD=":"
-+    ac_cv_prog_FILECMD="file"
-     printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-     break 2
-   fi
-@@ -9483,6 +9483,7 @@ done
-   done
- IFS=$as_save_IFS
- 
-+  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_FILECMD" && ac_cv_prog_FILECMD=":"
- fi ;;
- esac
- fi