diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
index 44e6f482dbe4..eab7ca4e0d1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   lib,
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
   acl,
   attr,
   autoreconfHook,
@@ -33,30 +32,15 @@
 assert xarSupport -> libxml2 != null;
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "libarchive";
-  version = "3.8.0";
+  version = "3.8.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "libarchive";
     repo = "libarchive";
     rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-nL2p2h+U25fhQQjbj16yhxhU8xEEuhNynIx7SNzl6Mo=";
+    hash = "sha256-KN5SvQ+/g/OOa+hntMX3D8p5IEWO0smke5WK+DwrOH0=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Remove in next release
-    #
-    # Fixes macOS metadata file handling when reading certain tarballs
-    # (e.g, bsdtar-produced tar containing a file with xattrs whose name is exactly 99 bytes long)
-    # <https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2636>
-    #
-    # This also fixes test_copy in the test suite.
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "reset-header-state-after-mac-metadata.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5bb36db5e19aecabccec8f351ec22f8c3a8695f0.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-eNGSunYZ5b0TrkBUtOO7MYGXc+SEn1Sxm8MYyI+4JsQ=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   outputs = [
     "out"
     "lib"