diff --git a/patches/patchinstall.sh b/patches/patchinstall.sh
index 47e623ab..e058182a 100755
--- a/patches/patchinstall.sh
+++ b/patches/patchinstall.sh
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ usage()
 # Get the upstream commit sha
 upstream_commit()
 {
-	echo "4e5fab6214d9304004369d50b6c73b8d88cf46d8"
+	echo "a4ed65d57721adade08440b9cabf44e3394fc3ad"
 }
 
 # Show version information
 version()
 {
-	echo "Wine Staging 8.0"
+	echo "Wine Staging 8.1"
 	echo "Copyright (C) 2014-2019 the Wine Staging project authors."
 	echo "Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Alistair Leslie-Hughes"
 	echo ""
diff --git a/staging/VERSION b/staging/VERSION
index 4a9f5d53..6f5be097 100644
--- a/staging/VERSION
+++ b/staging/VERSION
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Wine Staging 8.0
+Wine Staging 8.1
 
diff --git a/staging/upstream-commit b/staging/upstream-commit
index 9ca85aa1..aa1653e4 100644
--- a/staging/upstream-commit
+++ b/staging/upstream-commit
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6c75cddb9851095694dfa397870919d4cc70d3ef
+a4ed65d57721adade08440b9cabf44e3394fc3ad