diff --git a/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile b/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
index de77412e0a..b4f595cb21 100644
--- a/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=gstreamer1
-PKG_VERSION:=1.22.6
+PKG_VERSION:=1.22.8
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=gstreamer-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer
-PKG_HASH:=f500e6cfddff55908f937711fc26a0840de28a1e9ec49621c0b6f1adbd8f818e
+PKG_HASH:=ad4e3db1771139b1db17b1afa7c05db083ae0100bd4da244b71f162dcce41bfc
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gstreamer-$(PKG_VERSION)
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> \
diff --git a/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/020-distutils.patch b/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/020-distutils.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8be9d76ef5..0000000000
--- a/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/020-distutils.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ if get_option('default_library') == 'sta
- endif
- 
- # Used in gst/parse/meson.build and below
--python3 = import('python').find_installation()
-+python3 = 'python3'
- 
- bashcomp_option = get_option('bash-completion')
- bashcomp_dep = dependency('bash-completion', version : '>= 2.0', required : bashcomp_option)