diff --git a/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch b/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 31ac4b0b5a..0000000000
--- a/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-From 3879afd473a256173cc626e16293f3fe8875f2d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 09:53:23 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Only add "iconv" to the .pc file if needed (#1825)"
-
-This reverts commit 1f35c466aaa9444335a1b854b0b7223b0d2346c2.
-
-Upstream: no dedicated PR for this revert but there is already plenty of PRs/issues to fix iconv build ...
-Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
----
- configure.ac | 4 +---
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 93f7af94..204a4e69 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -455,9 +455,7 @@ if test "x$with_iconv" != "xno"; then
-     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([localcharset.h])
-     am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-     LIBS="${LIBS} ${LIBICONV}"
--    if test -n "$LIBICONV"; then
--      LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
--    fi
-+    LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
-     AC_CHECK_FUNCS([locale_charset])
-     LIBS="${am_save_LIBS}"
-     if test "x$ac_cv_func_locale_charset" != "xyes"; then
--- 
-2.43.0
-
diff --git a/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch b/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a5b4c86a2f..0000000000
--- a/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 619c1be8d38ff79622db8f66f3b02832795315f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:04:39 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] autotools: do not add iconv for Requires.private
-
-There is no pkgconfig file for iconv, thus things break with this
-change. Let's drop iconv from Requires.private.
-
-Fixes: a83f3d32 ("autotools: Fix static linking when openssl is enabled in windows")
-Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1817/commits/619c1be8d38ff79622db8f66f3b02832795315f9
-Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
----
- configure.ac | 1 -
- 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 99bff20d1..f245d0c55 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ if test "x$with_iconv" != "xno"; then
-     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([localcharset.h])
-     am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-     LIBS="${LIBS} ${LIBICONV}"
--    LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
-     AC_CHECK_FUNCS([locale_charset])
-     LIBS="${am_save_LIBS}"
-     if test "x$ac_cv_func_locale_charset" != "xyes"; then
diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash b/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
index d132664e17..b8738e4a99 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# From https://www.libarchive.de/downloads/sha256sums
-sha256  ed8b5732e4cd6e30fae909fb945cad8ff9cb7be5c6cdaa3944ec96e4a200c04c  libarchive-3.7.9.tar.xz
+# Locally computed after verifying the signature from
+# https://www.libarchive.de/downloads/libarchive-3.8.1.tar.xz.asc
+sha256  19f917d42d530f98815ac824d90c7eaf648e9d9a50e4f309c812457ffa5496b5  libarchive-3.8.1.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  b2cdf763345de2de34cebf54394df3c61a105c3b71288603c251f2fa638200ba  COPYING
+sha256  30e556b3959e3985d66efefec5eaac51d4995053caa1d3cffe6eb916f146f229  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
index 7fec01a040..1dafec726b 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
@@ -4,17 +4,13 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBARCHIVE_VERSION = 3.7.9
+LIBARCHIVE_VERSION = 3.8.1
 LIBARCHIVE_SOURCE = libarchive-$(LIBARCHIVE_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBARCHIVE_SITE = https://www.libarchive.de/downloads
 LIBARCHIVE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBARCHIVE_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, CC0-1.0, OpenSSL, Apache-2.0
 LIBARCHIVE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 LIBARCHIVE_CPE_ID_VENDOR = libarchive
-# We're patching configure.ac
-LIBARCHIVE_AUTORECONF = YES
-# needed for autoreconf
-LIBARCHIVE_DEPENDENCIES += host-pkgconf
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBARCHIVE_BSDTAR),y)
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)