diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 323604e..d6791e5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (systemd-259.1.tar.gz) = 7cbeca5dad6413a876809200583854ddc706b7a69deff958eb1ca1afb726cf4dec014006c10d1945c450b754811d4b95a80fe1778cb3136997f6d11b11c0560e
+SHA512 (systemd-259.8.tar.gz) = 02d441090a58b7cde5cc314b41e4b67d73e04e0190b79dda90ffdfc93a25e480c2416d08022c92718af2956237ce06e832fb54a6d34c04f5840caff826b0a232
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index 3b20779..2e4176d 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
 # e.g. when re-building cryptsetup on a json-c SONAME-bump.
 %bcond bootstrap 0
 %bcond tests     1
-%bcond lto       1
+
+# riscv64 has LTO disabled globally
+%bcond lto       %["%_arch" != "riscv64"]
+
 # Build docs on 64-bit architectures only
 %bcond docs      %[%{?__isa_bits} >= 64]
 
@@ -73,7 +76,7 @@ Url:            https://systemd.io
 # But don't do that on OBS, otherwise the version subst fails, and will be
 # like 257-123-gabcd257.1 instead of 257-123-gabcd
 %if %{without obs}
-Version:        %{?version_override}%{!?version_override:259.1}
+Version:        %{?version_override}%{!?version_override:259.8}
 %else
 Version:        %{?version_override}%{!?version_override:%(cat meson.version)}
 %endif