diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/link-library-against-libjpeg.patch b/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/link-library-against-libjpeg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d0f3d2968462..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/link-library-against-libjpeg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 636531ee..af1b0e4e 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ INCLUDE ( FindJPEG )
- if (JPEG_FOUND)
-   include_directories( ${JPEG_INCLUDE_DIR} )
-   target_link_libraries( yuvconvert ${JPEG_LIBRARY} )
-+  target_link_libraries( ${ly_lib_shared} ${JPEG_LIBRARY} )
-   add_definitions( -DHAVE_JPEG )
- endif()
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/package.nix
index 549d4853f1f9..20587c52e87e 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libyuv/package.nix
@@ -4,31 +4,30 @@
   fetchgit,
   cmake,
   libjpeg,
+  gtest,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "libyuv";
-  version = "1787"; # Defined in: include/libyuv/version.h
+  version = "1908"; # Defined in: include/libyuv/version.h
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://chromium.googlesource.com/libyuv/libyuv.git";
-    rev = "eb6e7bb63738e29efd82ea3cf2a115238a89fa51"; # refs/heads/stable
-    hash = "sha256-DtRYoaAXb9ZD2OLiKbzKzH5vzuu+Lzu4eHaDgPB9hjU=";
+    rev = "b7a857659f8485ee3c6769c27a3e74b0af910746"; # upstream does not do tagged releases
+    hash = "sha256-4Irs+hlAvr6v5UKXmKHhg4IK3cTWdsFWxt1QTS0rizU=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
   ];
 
-  # NEON does not work on aarch64, we disable it
-  cmakeFlags = lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 [
-    "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DLIBYUV_DISABLE_NEON"
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DUNIT_TEST=ON"
   ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ libjpeg ];
-
-  patches = [
-    ./link-library-against-libjpeg.patch
+  buildInputs = [
+    libjpeg
+    gtest
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
@@ -40,6 +39,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       --replace "@VERSION@" "$version"
   '';
 
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    runHook preCheck
+
+    ./libyuv_unittest
+
+    runHook postCheck
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://chromium.googlesource.com/libyuv/libyuv";
     description = "Open source project that includes YUV scaling and conversion functionality";