diff --git a/harfbuzz-2.8.0.tar.xz b/harfbuzz-2.8.0.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index b1334d0..0000000
--- a/harfbuzz-2.8.0.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:a1079fd021adaf5683351f34587a255975cc3bcadba31246ae40ebebb95ecd42
-size 9774148
diff --git a/harfbuzz-2.8.1.tar.xz b/harfbuzz-2.8.1.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3536eb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/harfbuzz-2.8.1.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:4124f663ec4bf4e294d9cf230668370b4249a48ff34deaf0f06e8fc82d891300
+size 10480492
diff --git a/harfbuzz.changes b/harfbuzz.changes
index 792cf95..383682f 100644
--- a/harfbuzz.changes
+++ b/harfbuzz.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May  6 07:34:56 UTC 2021 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- Update to version 2.8.1:
+  + Subsetter now fully supports GSUB/GPOS/GDEF tables (including
+    variations); as such, layout tables are retained by subsetter
+    by default
+  + hb-view supports iTerm2 and kitty inline image protocols
+    it can also use Chafa for terminal graphics if available
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 13 08:20:55 UTC 2021 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
 
diff --git a/harfbuzz.spec b/harfbuzz.spec
index dd4e42f..7302d70 100644
--- a/harfbuzz.spec
+++ b/harfbuzz.spec
@@ -17,24 +17,24 @@
 
 
 Name:           harfbuzz
-Version:        2.8.0
+Version:        2.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An OpenType text shaping engine
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
 Source0:        https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source99:       baselibs.conf
-
 BuildRequires:  c++_compiler
 BuildRequires:  meson
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig >= 0.28
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(cairo) >= 1.8.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(cairo-ft)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(chafa) >= 1.6.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(freetype2) >= 12.0.6
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0) >= 2.19.1
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(graphite2)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(graphite2) >= 1.2.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gthread-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(icu-uc)
 Conflicts:      cantarell-fonts < 0.0.23