diff --git a/package/rt-tests/0002-Makefile-drop-explicit-undefine-PYLIB-for-compatibil.patch b/package/rt-tests/0002-Makefile-drop-explicit-undefine-PYLIB-for-compatibil.patch
index 9212b8eee0..650e63460f 100644
--- a/package/rt-tests/0002-Makefile-drop-explicit-undefine-PYLIB-for-compatibil.patch
+++ b/package/rt-tests/0002-Makefile-drop-explicit-undefine-PYLIB-for-compatibil.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 063972eece2fb8157f0feb98a4608c2984c7c5ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 17ec1bce74419f8193c0246dbde2d2fdd6b1b4e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
 Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 09:18:33 +0200
 Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: drop explicit undefine PYLIB for compatibility with
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index e2f8579..62c906f 100644
+index f656e34..1206f40 100644
 --- a/Makefile
 +++ b/Makefile
-@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@ LDFLAGS ?=
- 
- PYLIB ?= $(shell python3 -m get_pylib)
+@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ else
+ $(warning libcpupower disabled, building without --deepest-idle-state support.)
+ endif
  
 -# Check for errors, such as python3 not available
 -ifeq (${PYLIB},)
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ index e2f8579..62c906f 100644
  	   src/pi_tests/pi_stress.8 \
  	   src/ptsematest/ptsematest.8 \
 -- 
-2.45.2
+2.47.0
 
diff --git a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
index 9682fde406..c17829cace 100644
--- a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
+++ b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  0e5b2fbc98ceb786bd113c9a30f0388d884b2d8c4bd6c569d94ae8b00a702bbb  rt-tests-2.7.tar.xz
+sha256  13190fda63fae640a354d3378c16030f1bd4c243e514515810145dd9d1ae16d8  rt-tests-2.8.tar.xz
 # locally computed hash
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
index e048ee94d0..3c6b6f2276 100644
--- a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
+++ b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-RT_TESTS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/rt-tests/older
+RT_TESTS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/rt-tests
 RT_TESTS_SOURCE = rt-tests-$(RT_TESTS_VERSION).tar.xz
-RT_TESTS_VERSION = 2.7
+RT_TESTS_VERSION = 2.8
 RT_TESTS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 RT_TESTS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING