diff --git a/libs/mxml/Makefile b/libs/mxml/Makefile
index d3ba35710..45b04433a 100644
--- a/libs/mxml/Makefile
+++ b/libs/mxml/Makefile
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=mxml
-PKG_VERSION:=2.6
+PKG_VERSION:=2.8
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.msweet.org/files/project3/$(PKG_VERSION)/
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.msweet.org/files/project3/
 PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+PKG_MD5SUM:=d85ee6d30de053581242c4a86e79a5d2
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
 
diff --git a/libs/mxml/patches/001-targets.patch b/libs/mxml/patches/001-targets.patch
index 6d5324936..86379f02a 100644
--- a/libs/mxml/patches/001-targets.patch
+++ b/libs/mxml/patches/001-targets.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-diff -Nur mxml-2.6-orig/Makefile.in mxml-2.6/Makefile.in
---- mxml-2.6-orig/Makefile.in	2008-12-06 05:20:38.000000000 +0100
-+++ mxml-2.6/Makefile.in	2010-05-28 01:58:37.000000000 +0200
-@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
- 			mxml-node.o mxml-search.o mxml-set.o
+--- a/Makefile.in
++++ b/Makefile.in
+@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ PUBLIBOBJS	=	mxml-attr.o mxml-entity.o m
+ 			mxml-index.o mxml-node.o mxml-search.o mxml-set.o
  LIBOBJS		=	$(PUBLIBOBJS) mxml-private.o mxml-string.o
  OBJS		=	mxmldoc.o testmxml.o $(LIBOBJS)
 -TARGETS		=	$(LIBMXML) mxmldoc testmxml mxml.xml doc/mxml.man