diff --git a/community/blender/PKGBUILD b/community/blender/PKGBUILD
index b8fec0fcd..bc0423fb6 100644
--- a/community/blender/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/blender/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
+# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: John Sowiak <john@archlinux.org>
 # Contributor: tobias <tobias@archlinux.org>
 
@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ buildarch=12
 # or simply roll with a new version. I usually choose the latter when the former seems
 # unreasonable.
 
-_gittag=v2.80
+_gittag=v2.81
 # _gitcommit=054dbb833e15275e0e991e2c15e754a3e7583716
 
 pkgname=blender
-pkgver=2.80
+pkgver=2.81
 [[ -n $_gitcommit ]] && pkgver=${pkgver}.git1.${_gitcommit:0:8}
-pkgrel=8
+pkgrel=1
 epoch=17
 pkgdesc="A fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ sha512sums=('SKIP'
 prepare() {
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
 
-  # Python 3.8 compatibility fixes
-  git cherry-pick -n a7cf7b114f 9dd5e3b6e8 e413b39a93
-
   git submodule init
   git config submodule."release/scripts/addons".url ${srcdir}/blender-addons
   git config submodule."release/scripts/addons_contrib".url ${srcdir}/blender-addons-contrib
@@ -69,7 +66,9 @@ prepare() {
 build() {
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"/build
 
-  cmake -GNinja -C../build_files/cmake/config/blender_release.cmake .. \
+  cmake \
+    -GNinja \
+    -C../build_files/cmake/config/blender_release.cmake .. \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
     -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF \