diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/patches b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/patches
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..da7f98f2e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/patches
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../qemu/patches/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
index 065448e805..f97a517ee6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'qemu-user-static'
 pkgname=qemu-user-static
-version=2.2.1
-revision=2
+version=2.3.0
+revision=1
 wrksrc="qemu-${version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config automake python"
 makedepends="libglib-devel pixman-devel libuuid-devel"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="http://qemu.org"
 license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=4617154c6ef744b83e10b744e392ad111dd351d435d6563ce24d8da75b1335a0
+checksum=b6bab7f763d5be73e7cb5ee7d4c8365b7a8df2972c52fa5ded18893bd8281588
 
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