diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/fix-pkg-config-iconv.patch b/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/fix-pkg-config-iconv.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 209a293b460b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/fix-pkg-config-iconv.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 0fdfaf06a5..d08611848c 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -453,13 +453,8 @@
-   AC_CHECK_HEADERS([iconv.h],[],[],[#include <stdlib.h>])
-   if test "x$am_cv_func_iconv" = "xyes"; then
-     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([localcharset.h])
--    am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-     LIBS="${LIBS} ${LIBICONV}"
--    if test -n "$LIBICONV"; then
--      LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
--    fi
-     AC_CHECK_FUNCS([locale_charset])
--    LIBS="${am_save_LIBS}"
-     if test "x$ac_cv_func_locale_charset" != "xyes"; then
-       # If locale_charset() is not in libiconv, we have to find libcharset.
-       AC_CHECK_LIB(charset,locale_charset)
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
index 83360768cc45..526979f9cedb 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   lib,
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch,
   acl,
   attr,
   autoreconfHook,
@@ -11,7 +12,6 @@
   lzo,
   openssl,
   pkg-config,
-  sharutils,
   xz,
   zlib,
   zstd,
@@ -33,29 +33,28 @@
 assert xarSupport -> libxml2 != null;
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "libarchive";
-  version = "3.7.8";
+  version = "3.8.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "libarchive";
     repo = "libarchive";
     rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-fjE3b9rDHf1Xubpm9guvX6I8a2loYsGHj3epLceueUw=";
+    hash = "sha256-nL2p2h+U25fhQQjbj16yhxhU8xEEuhNynIx7SNzl6Mo=";
   };
 
   patches = [
-    # The `.pc` file lists `iconv` in `Requires.private` when `-liconv`
-    # is required, even though common platforms in that situation like
-    # Darwin don’t ship a `.pc` file for their `libiconv`. This isn’t
-    # upstreamed as there are a handful of closed or regressed PRs
-    # trying to fix it already and it seems upstream added this to deal
-    # with some non‐portable MSYS2 thing or something.
+    # Remove in next release
     #
-    # See:
+    # 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>
     #
-    # * <https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1766>
-    # * <https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1819>
-    # * <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/f8e9e8d4f30979dc99146b5877fce76be6d35124/Formula/lib/libarchive.rb#L48-L52>
-    ./fix-pkg-config-iconv.patch
+    # 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 = [
@@ -109,7 +108,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       zlib
       zstd
     ]
-    ++ lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isUnix sharutils
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux [
       acl
       attr