diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 38d02e34f4..78e2e90316 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 qt5-5.6.0_1
 libQt5EglDeviceIntegration.so.5 qt5-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKit.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
 libQt5WebKitWidgets.so.5 qt5-webkit-5.6.0_1
-libx265.so.79 x265-1.9_1
+libx265.so.87 x265-2.0_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.1 libqtxdg-1.0.0_1
 liblxqt-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-0.8.0_1
 liblxqt-globalkeys-qt5.so.0 lxqt-globalkeys-0.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 452abbe3ad..e8ffd8b1fd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=1.9
+version=2.0
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
-wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-1d3b6e448e01"
-hostmakedepends="yasm cmake"
+wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-960c9991d0dc"
+hostmakedepends="yasm"
 short_desc="Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=e1e4de6ead44e21c15378675e09c39ef192f2b7c844dd369d2ba1e979aca1ebb
+checksum=67a681ae9907002712075c0ad149f0b4f84333ebc4b37ccee6385804760d2d64
 nocross=yes
 only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"  # CMakeList is utterly broken.