diff --git a/package/faad2/faad2.hash b/package/faad2/faad2.hash
index 691645b7c0..d298e909a9 100644
--- a/package/faad2/faad2.hash
+++ b/package/faad2/faad2.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/files/faad2-src/faad2-2.7/ (used by upstream):
-sha1	80eaaa5cc576c35dd28863767b795c50cbcc0511  faad2-2.7.tar.gz
+# From http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/files/faad2-src/faad2-2.8.0/ (used by upstream):
+sha1	a5caa71cd915acd502d96cba56f38296277f2350  faad2-2.8.1.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
-sha256  ee26ed1e177c0cd8fa8458a481b14a0b24ca0b51468c8b4c8b676fd3ceccd330  faad2-2.7.tar.gz
+sha256  f4042496f6b0a60f5ded6acd11093230044ef8a2fd965360c1bbd5b58780933d  faad2-2.8.1.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/faad2/faad2.mk b/package/faad2/faad2.mk
index d7b55d3efa..fa965fe590 100644
--- a/package/faad2/faad2.mk
+++ b/package/faad2/faad2.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FAAD2_VERSION = 2.7
-FAAD2_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faad2-src/faad2-$(FAAD2_VERSION)
+FAAD2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.8
+FAAD2_VERSION = $(FAAD2_VERSION_MAJOR).1
+FAAD2_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faad2-src/faad2-$(FAAD2_VERSION_MAJOR).0
+FAAD2_SOURCE = faad2-$(FAAD2_VERSION).tar.bz2
 FAAD2_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 FAAD2_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+# No configure script in upstream tarball
+FAAD2_AUTORECONF = YES
 # frontend/faad calls frexp()
 FAAD2_CONF_ENV = LIBS=-lm
 FAAD2_INSTALL_STAGING = YES