diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 89fc589e8a3..77577957ede 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ libQt5EglFsKmsSupport.so.5 qt5-5.7.1_1
 libQt5WebKit.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKitWidgets.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5TextToSpeech.so.5 qt5-speech-5.8.0_1
-libx265.so.160 x265-2.8_1
+libx265.so.165 x265-2.9_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.3 libqtxdg-3.1.0_1
 libQt5XdgIconLoader.so.3 libqtxdg-3.1.0_1
 libqwt.so.6 qwt-6.1.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/patches/fix-cross.patch b/srcpkgs/x265/patches/fix-cross.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e31968a5a80..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/patches/fix-cross.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- source/common/param.cpp.orig	2018-05-28 11:05:41.571934454 +0200
-+++ source/common/param.cpp	2018-05-28 11:05:47.109929916 +0200
-@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ int x265_param_parse(x265_param* p, cons
-         if (bValueWasNull)
-             p->cpuid = atobool(value);
-         else
--            p->cpuid = parseCpuName(value, bError);
-+            p->cpuid = parseCpuName(value, bError, false);
- #endif
-     }
-     OPT("fps")
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 09e24f57368..125b11f9288 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=2.8
-revision=2
+version=2.9
+revision=1
 build_wrksrc=source
 wrksrc="x265_${version}"
 build_style=cmake
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://x265.org/"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=6e59f9afc0c2b87a46f98e33b5159d56ffb3558a49d8e3d79cb7fdc6b7aaa863
+checksum=ebae687c84a39f54b995417c52a2fdde65a4e2e7ebac5730d251471304b91024
 
 pre_configure() {
 	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then