diff --git a/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/patches/cld3.patch b/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/patches/cld3.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e3367ecfa7..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/patches/cld3.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-getonescriptspan_test.cc is just a test file that shouldn't be linked into any program.
-
-Ref: https://github.com/google/cld3/pull/78
----
---- a/cmake/external/cld3/CMakeLists.txt	2022-12-31 07:19:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ -	2023-01-06 13:30:13.082990927 +0100
-@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@
-     script_span/generated_entities.cc
-     script_span/getonescriptspan.cc
-     script_span/getonescriptspan.h
--    script_span/getonescriptspan_test.cc
-     script_span/utf8statetable.cc
-     script_span/offsetmap.cc
-     script_span/text_processing.cc
diff --git a/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/template b/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/template
index 9db9f80c1a5..22e46e4e95e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/telegram-desktop/template
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'telegram-desktop'
 pkgname=telegram-desktop
-version=4.8.1
-revision=4
+version=4.8.4
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
-build_helper="qemu"
+build_helper="qemu gir"
 configure_args="-DTDESKTOP_API_ID=209235
  -DTDESKTOP_API_HASH=169ee702e1df4b6e66d80311db36cc43
  -DDESKTOP_APP_DISABLE_CRASH_REPORTS=ON
  -DDESKTOP_APP_DISABLE_SPELLCHECK=$(vopt_if spellcheck 'false' 'true')
  -DWaylandScanner_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/wayland-scanner
  -DQT_HOST_PATH=/usr"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config qt6-base python3 extra-cmake-modules
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config qt6-base python3 clang extra-cmake-modules
  qt6-wayland-tools wayland-devel protobuf"
-makedepends="alsa-lib-devel ffmpeg-devel libdbusmenu-glib-devel libopenal-devel
+makedepends="alsa-lib-devel boost-devel fmt-devel ffmpeg-devel gobject-introspection libdbusmenu-glib-devel libopenal-devel
  minizip-devel opus-devel xxHash-devel pulseaudio-devel range-v3
  qt6-svg-devel libva-devel rapidjson liblz4-devel liblzma-devel gtk+3-devel
  MesaLib-devel qt6-wayland-devel qt6-qt5compat-devel libatomic-devel
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ license="GPL-3.0-or-later, OpenSSL"
 homepage="https://desktop.telegram.org/"
 changelog="https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/v${version}/changelog.txt"
 distfiles="https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/releases/download/v${version}/tdesktop-${version}-full.tar.gz"
-checksum=96660bb151c035a80c5b32a8fe043cecb54e9fe450329cf612ecb752db68c06f
+checksum="4328296df07557786e1b9cf22f6675200dbdf29c75d2efeb635c6b7f3f951e8d"
 
 build_options="spellcheck"
 build_options_default="spellcheck"