diff --git a/development/valabind/valabind.SlackBuild b/development/valabind/valabind.SlackBuild
index aa5bdb6a35..5a2e54b705 100644
--- a/development/valabind/valabind.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/valabind/valabind.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=valabind
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -79,12 +79,21 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-make \
-  CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS"
-
-make install \
-  MANDIR=/usr/man \
-  DESTDIR=$PKG
+mkdir build
+cd build
+  CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  meson .. \
+    --buildtype=release \
+    --infodir=/usr/info \
+    --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --mandir=/usr/man \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc
+  ninja
+  DESTDIR=$PKG ninja install
+cd ..
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
diff --git a/development/valabind/valabind.info b/development/valabind/valabind.info
index 389535a79a..c22a2cdac6 100644
--- a/development/valabind/valabind.info
+++ b/development/valabind/valabind.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="valabind"
-VERSION="1.4.0"
-HOMEPAGE="http://radare.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/radare/valabind/archive/1.4.0/valabind-1.4.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="c710b99ac4c27f4ed45dc38eccbc8544"
+VERSION="1.8.0"
+HOMEPAGE="https://radare.org/n/"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/radare/valabind/archive/1.8.0/valabind-1.8.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="427c07a82902506c65101952af6bb2f1"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""