diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.8.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.8.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..11435bf329f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.8.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import ./common.nix {
+  version = "6.8";
+  sha256 = "1i7yb7mrp3inz25zbzv2pllr4y7d58v818f1as7iz8mw53nm7dwf";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
index 1c5de083bc0d..d6e6bced405b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     && !stdenv.isDarwin
     && !stdenv.isSunOS; # flaky
 
+  checkFlagsArray = if version == "6.8" then [
+    # Test is known to fail on various locales on texinfo-6.8:
+    #   https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2021-07/msg00012.html
+    "XFAIL_TESTS=test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_icons.sh"
+  ] else null;
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/";
     description = "The GNU documentation system";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
index c172edd1fd98..5b57dc20e3bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
@@ -1,27 +1,32 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch }:
 
-let
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "cpio";
   version = "2.13";
-  name = "cpio-${version}";
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  inherit name;
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/cpio/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    url = "mirror://gnu/cpio/cpio-${version}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "0vbgnhkawdllgnkdn6zn1f56fczwk0518krakz2qbwhxmv2vvdga";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "CVE-2021-38185.patch";
-      url = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/patch/?id=dd96882877721703e19272fe25034560b794061b";
-      sha256 = "0vmr0qjwj2ldnzsvccl105ckwgx3ssvn9mp3f27ss0kiyigrzz32";
-    })
+  patches = let
+    fp = suffix: rev: sha256: fetchpatch {
+      name = "CVE-2021-38185-${suffix}.patch";
+      url = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/patch/?id=${rev}";
+      inherit sha256;
+    };
+  in [
+    (fp "1" "dd96882877721703e19272fe25034560b794061b"
+        "0vmr0qjwj2ldnzsvccl105ckwgx3ssvn9mp3f27ss0kiyigrzz32")
+    (fp "2" "dfc801c44a93bed7b3951905b188823d6a0432c8"
+        "1qkrhi3lbxk6hflp6w3h4sgssc0wblv8r0qgxqzbjrm36pqwxiwh")
+    (fp "3" "236684f6deb3178043fe72a8e2faca538fa2aae1"
+        "0pidkbxalpj5yz4fr95x8h0rizgjij0xgvjgirfkjk460giawwg6")
   ];
 
-  preConfigure = if stdenv.isCygwin then ''
+  preConfigure = lib.optionalString stdenv.isCygwin ''
     sed -i gnu/fpending.h -e 's,include <stdio_ext.h>,,'
-  '' else null;
+  '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4f91cf812e3c..c53485f5dea4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14878,6 +14878,7 @@ with pkgs;
   texinfo5 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix { };
   texinfo6_5 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.5.nix { }; # needed for allegro
   texinfo6 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.7.nix { };
+  texinfo6_8 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.8.nix { };
   texinfo = texinfo6;
   texinfoInteractive = appendToName "interactive" (
     texinfo.override { interactive = true; }