diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/weston/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/weston/default.nix
index 34ad2bcc732..51da999aff0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/weston/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/weston/default.nix
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 with stdenv.lib;
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "weston";
-  version = "7.0.0";
+  version = "8.0.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0r4sj11hq4brv3ryrgp2wmkkfz1h59vh9ih18igzjibagch6s2m0";
+    sha256 = "0j3q0af3595g4wcicldgy749zm2g2b6bswa6ya8k075a5sdv863m";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig ];
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Dremoting=false" # TODO
     "-Dpipewire=${boolToString (pipewire != null)}"
     "-Dimage-webp=${boolToString (libwebp != null)}"
-    "-Dsimple-dmabuf-drm=" # Disables all drivers
     "-Ddemo-clients=false"
     "-Dsimple-clients="
     "-Dtest-junit-xml=false"
@@ -43,6 +42,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Dxwayland-path=${xwayland.out}/bin/Xwayland"
   ];
 
+  passthru.providedSessions = [ "weston" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Reference implementation of a Wayland compositor";
     homepage = https://wayland.freedesktop.org/;