diff --git a/games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.7.recipe b/games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.8.recipe
similarity index 93%
rename from games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.7.recipe
rename to games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.8.recipe
index 798e0a189..da1396ac6 100644
--- a/games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.7.recipe
+++ b/games-strategy/boswars/boswars-2.8.recipe
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2004-2014 Tina Petersen Jensen, Francois Beerten et al."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://www.boswars.org/dist/releases/boswars-$portVersion-src.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="dc3718f531e9ea413cf37e1333b62a4c5e69f1405502d9c59b9e424635135e3e"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="5185206990bf6765c7a5d3802ce6e6048a1087cf4c307b099a5691a3eec6b86a"
 SOURCE_FILENAME="boswars-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 SOURCE_DIR="boswars-$portVersion-src"
 PATCHES="boswars-$portVersion.patchset"
@@ -40,13 +40,15 @@ REQUIRES="
 	lib:libSDL_1.2$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libtheora$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libvorbis$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libX11$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
 	"
 
 BUILD_REQUIRES="
 	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	xlibe${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
 	devel:libGLU$secondaryArchSuffix
-	devel:liblua5.1$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:liblua$secondaryArchSuffix >= 5.1
 	devel:libogg$secondaryArchSuffix
 	devel:libpng16$secondaryArchSuffix
 	devel:libSDL_1.2$secondaryArchSuffix
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ BUILD_REQUIRES="
 BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
-	cmd:python2
+	cmd:python3
 	"
 
 defineDebugInfoPackage boswars$secondaryArchSuffix \
diff --git a/games-strategy/boswars/patches/boswars-2.7.patchset b/games-strategy/boswars/patches/boswars-2.8.patchset
similarity index 100%
rename from games-strategy/boswars/patches/boswars-2.7.patchset
rename to games-strategy/boswars/patches/boswars-2.8.patchset