diff --git a/packages/tmux/build.sh b/packages/tmux/build.sh
index bda7c9fde..22acabf8c 100755
--- a/packages/tmux/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tmux/build.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://tmux.github.io/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Terminal multiplexer"
 # Link against libandroid-support for wcwidth(), see https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/224
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libevent, libutil, libandroid-support, libandroid-glob"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.7
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9ded7d100313f6bc5a87404a4048b3745d61f2332f99ec1400a7c4ed9485d452
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.8
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7f6bf335634fafecff878d78de389562ea7f73a7367f268b66d37ea13617a2ba
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/tmux-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 
diff --git a/packages/tmux/compat-imsg-buffer.c.patch b/packages/tmux/compat-imsg-buffer.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bc253897..000000000
--- a/packages/tmux/compat-imsg-buffer.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r -N ../tmux-1.8/compat/imsg-buffer.c ./compat/imsg-buffer.c
---- ../tmux-1.8/compat/imsg-buffer.c	2013-02-10 17:20:15.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./compat/imsg-buffer.c	2014-01-08 12:33:53.721206934 +0100
-@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
- 
- #include "tmux.h"
- 
-+#ifndef IOV_MAX
-+# define IOV_MAX 1024
-+#endif
-+
- int	ibuf_realloc(struct ibuf *, size_t);
- void	ibuf_enqueue(struct msgbuf *, struct ibuf *);
- void	ibuf_dequeue(struct msgbuf *, struct ibuf *);