diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-tkinter/template b/srcpkgs/python3-tkinter/template
index e1220ba4dde..bd44ed68023 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-tkinter/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-tkinter/template
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 _desc="Python programming language"
 
 pkgname=python3-tkinter
-version=3.6.10
+version=3.8.1
 revision=1
 wrksrc="Python-${version}"
 pycompile_dirs="
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 homepage="https://www.python.org"
 license="Python-2.0"
 distfiles="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${version}/Python-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=0a833c398ac8cd7c5538f7232d8531afef943c60495c504484f308dac3af40de
+checksum=75894117f6db7051c1b34f37410168844bbb357c139a8a10a352e9bf8be594e8
 
 pre_configure() {
-	# Ensure that internal copies of zlib, expat and libffi are not used.
-	rm -r Modules/zlib
+	# Ensure that internal copies of expat and libffi are not used.
 	rm -r Modules/expat
 	rm -r Modules/_ctypes/{darwin,libffi}*
 }
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ do_install() {
 		mv ${wrksrc}/${pkgname}-${version}-install/usr/lib/python${version%.*}/${lib} \
 			${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python${version%.*}/
 	done
-	mv ${wrksrc}/${pkgname}-${version}-install/usr/${_libdir}/python${version%.*}/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-*m*.so \
+	mv ${wrksrc}/${pkgname}-${version}-install/usr/${_libdir}/python${version%.*}/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-*.so \
 		${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/python${version%.*}/lib-dynload/
 	ln -sf idle${version%.*} ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/idle3
 }