diff --git a/dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.7.2.recipe b/dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.8.recipe
similarity index 81%
rename from dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.7.2.recipe
rename to dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.8.recipe
index 882943274..e4fc40317 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.7.2.recipe
+++ b/dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.8.recipe
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ DESCRIPTION="Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool."
 HOMEPAGE="http://mercurial.selenic.com/"
 COPYRIGHT="2005-2012 Matt Mackall et al."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-SRC_URI="http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-2.7.2.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_MD5="ec00ddc6aadfea1e11b23650cb741d53"
+SRC_URI="http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-2.8.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="76b565f48000e9f331356ab107a5bcbb"
 REVISION="1"
-ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 
-PATCHES="mercurial-2.7.2.patch"
+PATCHES="mercurial-2.8.patch"
 
 PROVIDES="
 	mercurial = $portVersion compat >= 2
diff --git a/dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.7.2.patch b/dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.8.patch
similarity index 57%
rename from dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.7.2.patch
rename to dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.8.patch
index e5ba9e92f..734c4b759 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.7.2.patch
+++ b/dev-vcs/mercurial/patches/mercurial-2.8.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-diff -up mercurial-2.7.1/mercurial/ui.py.orig mercurial-2.7.1/mercurial/ui.py
---- mercurial-2.7.2/mercurial/ui.py.orig	2012-06-01 22:48:21.025690112 -0600
-+++ mercurial-2.7.2/mercurial/ui.py	2012-06-04 17:15:16.317980672 -0600
+diff -up mercurial-2.8/mercurial/ui.py.orig mercurial-2.8/mercurial/ui.py
+--- mercurial-2.8/mercurial/ui.py.orig	2012-06-01 22:48:21.025690112 -0600
++++ mercurial-2.8/mercurial/ui.py	2012-06-04 17:15:16.317980672 -0600
 @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ class ui(object):
              # avoid confusion.
              editor = 'E'