diff --git a/gcc/d/d-spec.c b/gcc/d/d-spec.c
index a43cb34..e4bb527 100644
--- a/gcc/d/d-spec.c
+++ b/gcc/d/d-spec.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ lang_specific_driver (cl_decoded_option **in_decoded_options,
   /* The number of arguments being added to what's in argv, other than
      libraries.  We use this to track the number of times we've inserted
      -xd/-xnone.  */
-  int added = 0;
+  int added = 1; /* -lz */
 
   /* The new argument list will be contained in this.  */
   cl_decoded_option *new_decoded_options;
@@ -462,6 +462,14 @@ lang_specific_driver (cl_decoded_option **in_decoded_options,
       j++;
     }
 
+  /* Use the up-to-date system zlib with libphobos */
+  {
+      generate_option (OPT_l, "z", 1, CL_DRIVER,
+              &new_decoded_options[j]);
+      added_libraries++;
+      j++;
+  }
+
   /* Add `-lgphobos' if we haven't already done so.  */
   if (library > 0 && phobos)
     {
diff --git a/libphobos/src/Makefile.am b/libphobos/src/Makefile.am
index de99b58..d174646 100644
--- a/libphobos/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/libphobos/src/Makefile.am
@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ Z_OBJS=zlib/adler32.o zlib/compress.o zlib/crc32.o zlib/deflate.o \
        zlib/infback.o zlib/inffast.o zlib/inflate.o zlib/inftrees.o \
        zlib/trees.o zlib/uncompr.o zlib/zutil.o
 
-ZLIB_OBJS=@ZLIB_OBJS@
-
 
 # modules which require some kind of operating system
 OS_OBJS=std/file.o std/mmfile.o std/path.o std/process.o \
@@ -113,7 +111,7 @@ WINDOWS_OBJS=std/c/windows/com.o std/c/windows/stat.o std/c/wcharh.o \
 
 D_EXTRA_OBJS=@D_EXTRA_OBJS@
 
-ALL_PHOBOS_OBJS = $(D_EXTRA_OBJS) $(MAIN_OBJS) $(ZLIB_OBJS)
+ALL_PHOBOS_OBJS = $(D_EXTRA_OBJS) $(MAIN_OBJS)
 
 
 libgphobos2.a : $(ALL_PHOBOS_OBJS) ../libdruntime/libgdruntime.a
diff --git a/libphobos/src/Makefile.in b/libphobos/src/Makefile.in
index 6d3a91f..803e4aa 100644
--- a/libphobos/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/libphobos/src/Makefile.in
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ SHELL = @SHELL@
 STRIP = @STRIP@
 VERSION = @VERSION@
 WERROR = @WERROR@
-ZLIB_OBJS = @ZLIB_OBJS@
 abs_builddir = @abs_builddir@
 abs_srcdir = @abs_srcdir@
 abs_top_builddir = @abs_top_builddir@
@@ -272,7 +271,7 @@ WINDOWS_OBJS = std/c/windows/com.o std/c/windows/stat.o std/c/wcharh.o \
 	     std/windows/charset.o std/windows/iunknown.o std/windows/registry.o \
 	     std/windows/syserror.o std/internal/windows/advapi32.o
 
-ALL_PHOBOS_OBJS = $(D_EXTRA_OBJS) $(MAIN_OBJS) $(ZLIB_OBJS)
+ALL_PHOBOS_OBJS = $(D_EXTRA_OBJS) $(MAIN_OBJS)
 
 # Work around what appears to be a GNU make bug handling MAKEFLAGS
 # values defined in terms of make variables, as is the case for CC and
diff --git a/libphobos/src/etc/c/zlib.d b/libphobos/src/etc/c/zlib.d
index 65b1d92..b41b63a 100644
--- a/libphobos/src/etc/c/zlib.d
+++ b/libphobos/src/etc/c/zlib.d
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ import core.stdc.config;
 
 extern (C):
 
-const char[] ZLIB_VERSION = "1.2.3";
-const ZLIB_VERNUM = 0x1230;
+const char[] ZLIB_VERSION = "1.2.8";
+const ZLIB_VERNUM = 0x1280;
 
 /*
      The 'zlib' compression library provides in-memory compression and