diff --git a/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD b/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
index a55b9c62e..b9af198e7 100644
--- a/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 #  - remove numactl from depends, doesn't build on ARM
 
 pkgname=libvirt
-pkgver=1.2.8
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=1.2.9
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="API for controlling virtualization engines (openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc)"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://libvirt.org/"
@@ -61,12 +61,10 @@ backup=('etc/conf.d/libvirt-guests'
 	'etc/sasl2/libvirt.conf')
 install="libvirt.install"
 source=("http://libvirt.org/sources/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
-	"3e745e8f775dfe6f64f18b5c2fe4791b35d3546b.patch::http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=patch;h=3e745e8f775dfe6f64f18b5c2fe4791b35d3546b"
 	libvirtd.conf.d
 	libvirtd-guests.conf.d
 	libvirt.tmpfiles.d)
-md5sums=('75114991290f7c8f01dd5223431b9c00'
-         '695e138afb1edf31bb650d4ecf2bdfe8'
+md5sums=('f017075995062ff1d15577b0b093d02e'
          '5e31269067dbd12ca871234450bb66bb'
          '384fff96c6248d4f020f6fa66c32b357'
          '020971887442ebbf1b6949e031c8dd3f')
@@ -79,8 +77,6 @@ prepare() {
     sed -i 's_#!.*/usr/bin/env.*python_#!/usr/bin/env python2_' $file
   done
 
-  patch -p1 <$srcdir/3e745e8f775dfe6f64f18b5c2fe4791b35d3546b.patch
-  
   sed -i 's|/sysconfig/|/conf.d/|g' \
     daemon/libvirtd.service.in \
     tools/{libvirt-guests.service,libvirt-guests.sh,virt-pki-validate}.in \