diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/default.nix
index d0bd2ecc009..7f690f0997b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/default.nix
@@ -7,29 +7,16 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libva-${lib.optionalString minimal "minimal-"}${version}";
-  version = "2.7.1"; # Also update the hash for libva-utils!
+  version = "2.8.0"; # Also update the hash for libva-utils!
 
   # update libva-utils and vaapiIntel as well
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner  = "intel";
     repo   = "libva";
     rev    = version;
-    sha256 = "0ywasac7z3hwggj8szp83sbxi2naa0a3amblx64y7i1hyyrn0csq";
+    sha256 = "190cq173jzp5rkrczi8gzbwa0y3xk253v4wd205a5ilfngm7srns";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch { # meson: Allow for libdir and includedir to be absolute paths
-      url = "https://github.com/intel/libva/commit/de902e2905abff635f3bb151718cc52caa3f669c.patch";
-      sha256 = "1lpc8qzvsxnlsh9g0ab5lja204zxz8rr2p973pfihcw7dcxc3gia";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    # Remove the execute bit from all source code files
-    # https://github.com/intel/libva/commit/dbd2cd635f33af1422cbc2079af0a7e68671c102
-    chmod -x va/va{,_dec_av1,_trace,_vpp}.h
-  '';
-
   outputs = [ "dev" "out" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson pkg-config ninja wayland ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libva-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/utils.nix
similarity index 93%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/libva-utils/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/libva/utils.nix
index 90f1849aee0..5b9f4cdd8aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libva-utils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libva/utils.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     owner  = "intel";
     repo   = "libva-utils";
     rev    = version;
-    sha256 = "13a0dccphi4cpr2cx45kg4djxsssi3d1fcjrkx27b16xiayp5lx9";
+    sha256 = "081hw2jnj64bpqwh9p41n5caqzm6dnj1ggnvvc5wrf4m2z1h2bjb";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkg-config ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 306602b3785..c5b03826a8d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13604,7 +13604,7 @@ in
 
   libva = callPackage ../development/libraries/libva { };
   libva-minimal = libva.override { minimal = true; };
-  libva-utils = callPackage ../development/libraries/libva-utils { };
+  libva-utils = callPackage ../development/libraries/libva/utils.nix { };
 
   libva1 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libva/1.0.0.nix { };
   libva1-minimal = libva1.override { minimal = true; };