diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 7629d868216..ed76ac8f470 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.6 libmagick6-6.9.10.11_1
 libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.6 libmagick6-6.9.10.11_1
 libMagick++-6.Q16.so.8 libmagick6-6.9.10.11_1
 libltdl.so.7 libltdl-2.2.6_1
-libpoppler.so.87 libpoppler87-0.76.0_1
+libpoppler.so.89 libpoppler89-0.78.0_1
 libpoppler-glib.so.8 poppler-glib-0.18.2_1
 libpoppler-cpp.so.0 poppler-cpp-0.18.2_1
 libpoppler-qt5.so.1 poppler-qt5-0.31.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpoppler87 b/srcpkgs/libpoppler87
deleted file mode 120000
index 5d4379bfb79..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libpoppler87
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-poppler
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/fix-gir-cross.patch b/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/fix-gir-cross.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b9e1420049a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/fix-gir-cross.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/glib/CMakeLists.txt b/glib/CMakeLists.txt
-index 6f91669..ca5021f 100644
---- glib/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ glib/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ if (HAVE_INTROSPECTION AND BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-   get_directory_property(_tmp_includes INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
-   _list_prefix(_includes _tmp_includes "-I")
-   set(Poppler_0_18_gir_CFLAGS ${_includes} -L${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} -L${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
--  set(Poppler_0_18_gir_LIBS poppler-glib)
-+  set(Poppler_0_18_gir_LIBS poppler-glib poppler)
-   _list_prefix(_abs_introspection_files introspection_files "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/")
-   list(APPEND _abs_introspection_files
-     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/poppler-enums.c
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/poppler/template b/srcpkgs/poppler/template
index 12e1d4522b3..46e8bcd86b7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/poppler/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/poppler/template
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # THIS PKG MUST BE SYNCHRONIZED WITH "srcpkgs/poppler-qt5".
 #
 pkgname=poppler
-version=0.76.0
-revision=2
+version=0.78.0
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_helper="gir"
 configure_args="-DENABLE_UNSTABLE_API_ABI_HEADERS=ON -DENABLE_CPP=ON
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://poppler.freedesktop.org"
 distfiles="${homepage}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=370f5fcfe2bbf0c76fc394d338cd72ed7f2044b67f4eb4b115eb074ccfc70d63
+checksum=622fdd3187a7339c3b78b861b7cd820ea41ebce0609839ba28ee52c3387938c2
 
 # Package build options
 build_options="gir"
 build_options_default="gir"
 
-libpoppler87_package() {
+libpoppler89_package() {
 	depends="poppler-data"
 	short_desc+=" - poppler runtime library"
 	pkg_install() {