diff --git a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
index 4d91e8c97..1204d0306 100644
--- a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 
 pkgbase=systemd
 pkgname=('systemd' 'systemd-libs' 'systemd-resolvconf' 'systemd-sysvcompat')
-_tag='d066a4f747b225d47c5f5c97a8843d30878995b8' # git rev-parse v${_tag_name}
-_tag_name=250.3
+_tag='5aba21f1561d48fdcf7f4670263ba109c25c1ea6' # git rev-parse v${_tag_name}
+_tag_name=250.4
 pkgver="${_tag_name/-/}"
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=1
 arch=('x86_64')
 url='https://www.github.com/systemd/systemd'
 makedepends=('acl' 'cryptsetup' 'docbook-xsl' 'gperf' 'lz4' 'xz' 'pam' 'libelf'
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ sha512sums=('SKIP'
             'SKIP'
             'cc0c2ffb5f7c3a7176cd68f3dddd85ca000dcc4cdf3044746a20147234adb6811800fd28a4713faa6a59bf8c02be9fd43c2d6aa6695fd1dbf03ae773a91d090c'
             'f0d933e8c6064ed830dec54049b0a01e27be87203208f6ae982f10fb4eddc7258cb2919d594cbfb9a33e74c3510cfd682f3416ba8e804387ab87d1a217eb4b73'
-            '8167dd8f610fd98e3de4360cacd0020d3691cd1a989591a6db2f0d1277ce96880e64753bdbed759c6cf4b95d39b5d2415b4d9810e369e50e59655742174ff51c'
+            'aeefb607471cffb5ed4c3d9f36dc0954a9a08cee4b7b4ff55468b561e089e3d8448398906a7df328049ba51b712e4d50698b96bc152bdb03a35ce39c3f51a7cb'
             'a8c7e4a2cc9c9987e3c957a1fc3afe8281f2281fffd2e890913dcf00cf704024fb80d86cb75f9314b99b0e03bac275b22de93307bfc226d8be9435497e95b7e6'
             '61032d29241b74a0f28446f8cf1be0e8ec46d0847a61dadb2a4f096e8686d5f57fe5c72bcf386003f6520bc4b5856c32d63bf3efe7eb0bc0deefc9f68159e648'
             'c416e2121df83067376bcaacb58c05b01990f4614ad9de657d74b6da3efa441af251d13bf21e3f0f71ddcb4c9ea658b81da3d915667dc5c309c87ec32a1cb5a5'
diff --git a/core/systemd/initcpio-install-systemd b/core/systemd/initcpio-install-systemd
index d416e9707..b9d79857a 100644
--- a/core/systemd/initcpio-install-systemd
+++ b/core/systemd/initcpio-install-systemd
@@ -121,11 +121,6 @@ build() {
     add_symlink "/usr/lib/systemd/system/default.target" "initrd.target"
     add_symlink "/usr/lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target" "reboot.target"
 
-    # This code moved to glibc with 2.35-1, so the shared library is just empty.
-    # Keep it for the time being - but with final file name - for older glibc packages.
-    # TODO: Remove once settled!
-    add_binary '/usr/lib/libnss_files.so.2'
-
     printf '%s\n' >"$BUILDROOT/etc/nsswitch.conf" \
         'passwd: files' \
         'group: files' \