diff --git a/packages/apt/build.sh b/packages/apt/build.sh
index e9e9dc1bae6d2b..654d20800ef1f8 100644
--- a/packages/apt/build.sh
+++ b/packages/apt/build.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://packages.debian.org/apt
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Front-end for the dpkg package manager"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="2.7.14"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="2.8.1"
 # old tarball are removed in https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/apt-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=083f4af84f1e61f74710b0baa324e8e5a7bbab2dabadbb84d120cff92e262a7c
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=87ca18392c10822a133b738118505f7d04e0b31ba1122bf5d32911311cb2dc7e
 # apt-key requires utilities from coreutils, findutils, gpgv, grep, sed.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="coreutils, dpkg, findutils, gpgv, grep, libandroid-glob, libbz2, libc++, libiconv, libgcrypt, libgnutls, liblz4, liblzma, sed, termux-keyring, termux-licenses, xxhash, zlib, zstd"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="docbook-xsl,libdb"