diff --git a/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.hash b/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.hash
index 063d384511..8140dad83b 100644
--- a/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.hash
+++ b/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  196083d63e5e231fb5799e7ce86a944bbca564daabce3de9225a8aca9dcaff15  erofs-utils-1.7.1.tar.gz
+sha256  5dbf7b492f7682462b97a77121d43ca7609cd90e65f8c96931aefc820a6f0da3  erofs-utils-1.8.1.tar.gz
 sha256  0df042de29b44887355db86c79708a4489ce6e6666f6e33ad02040293f09e6a2  COPYING
 sha256  a400f85dd06d230f1b308cde4290a53f345b6e320a376b7904b31c51c2fd4b1a  LICENSES/Apache-2.0
 sha256  feee3b3157dcdf78d4f50edefbd5dd7adf8b6d52c11bfaaa746a85a373256713  LICENSES/GPL-2.0
diff --git a/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.mk b/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.mk
index f994ea9d07..7033be4a06 100644
--- a/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/erofs-utils/erofs-utils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EROFS_UTILS_VERSION = 1.7.1
+EROFS_UTILS_VERSION = 1.8.1
 EROFS_UTILS_SITE = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git/snapshot
 EROFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+, GPL-2.0+ or Apache-2.0 (liberofs)
 EROFS_UTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING LICENSES/Apache-2.0 LICENSES/GPL-2.0
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ EROFS_UTILS_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 EROFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf util-linux
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
+EROFS_UTILS_CONF_ENV += LIBS=-latomic
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_EROFS_UTILS_LZ4),y)
 EROFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES += lz4
 EROFS_UTILS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-lz4
@@ -56,12 +60,20 @@ else
 EROFS_UTILS_CONF_OPTS += --without-zlib
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD),y)
+EROFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES += zstd
+EROFS_UTILS_CONF_OPTS += --with-libzstd
+else
+EROFS_UTILS_CONF_OPTS += --without-libzstd
+endif
+
 HOST_EROFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-util-linux host-lz4 host-xz
 HOST_EROFS_UTILS_CONF_OPTS += \
 	--enable-lz4 \
 	--enable-lzma \
 	--disable-fuse \
 	--without-libdeflate \
+	--without-libzstd \
 	--without-selinux \
 	--without-zlib