diff --git a/office/JabRef/JabRef.SlackBuild b/office/JabRef/JabRef.SlackBuild
index 6fe8d22a8c..0048816e02 100644
--- a/office/JabRef/JabRef.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/JabRef/JabRef.SlackBuild
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=JabRef
-VERSION=${VERSION:-5.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ set -e
 rm -rf "$PKG"
 mkdir -p "$TMP" "$PKG" "$OUTPUT"
 cd "$PKG"
-ar p "$CWD"/${PRGNAM,,}_"$VERSION"_"$DEBARCH".deb data.tar.xz | tar xJv
+ar p "$CWD"/${PRGNAM,,}_"$VERSION"_"$DEBARCH".deb data.tar.zst | tar xv --zstd
 
 # permissions
 chown -R root:root .
diff --git a/office/JabRef/JabRef.info b/office/JabRef/JabRef.info
index f8c213f91b..b349ffa081 100644
--- a/office/JabRef/JabRef.info
+++ b/office/JabRef/JabRef.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="JabRef"
-VERSION="5.7"
+VERSION="5.8"
 HOMEPAGE="https://jabref.org"
 DOWNLOAD="UNSUPPORTED"
 MD5SUM=""
-DOWNLOAD_x86_64="https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/download/v5.7/jabref_5.7_amd64.deb"
-MD5SUM_x86_64="c768cac3aaf12c2a3f64e67de10b54e8"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64="https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/download/v5.8/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb"
+MD5SUM_x86_64="d6c39fd6a133a767b9496e63e623f3f8"
 REQUIRES=""
 MAINTAINER="David O'Shaughnessy"
 EMAIL="dev@osh.id.au"