diff --git a/net/haproxy/Makefile b/net/haproxy/Makefile
index a7798ce3..6dc1f206 100644
--- a/net/haproxy/Makefile
+++ b/net/haproxy/Makefile
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=haproxy
-PKG_VERSION:=3.0.0
+PKG_VERSION:=2.8.5
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://www.haproxy.org/download/3.0/src
-PKG_HASH:=5aad97416216d2cd9dd212eb674839c40cd387f60fbc4b13d7ea3f1e5664a814
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://www.haproxy.org/download/2.8/src
+PKG_HASH:=3f5459c5a58e0b343a32eaef7ed5bed9d3fc29d8aa9e14b36c92c969fc2a60d9
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Thomas Heil <heil@terminal-consulting.de>, \
 		Christian Lachner <gladiac@gmail.com>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ endef
 define Package/haproxy
   $(call Package/haproxy/Default)
   TITLE+=with SSL support
-  DEPENDS+= +libpcre2 +libltdl +zlib +libpthread +liblua5.3 +libopenssl +libncurses +libreadline +libatomic
+  DEPENDS+= +libpcre +libltdl +zlib +libpthread +liblua5.3 +libopenssl +libncurses +libreadline +libatomic
   VARIANT:=ssl
 endef
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ define Package/haproxy-nossl
   $(call Package/haproxy/Default)
   TITLE+=without SSL support
   VARIANT:=nossl
-  DEPENDS+= +libpcre2 +libltdl +zlib +libpthread +liblua5.3 +libatomic
+  DEPENDS+= +libpcre +libltdl +zlib +libpthread +liblua5.3 +libatomic
   CONFLICTS:=haproxy
 endef
 
@@ -83,8 +83,6 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(BUILD_VARIANT),ssl)
 	ADDON+=USE_OPENSSL=1
 	ADDON+=ADDLIB="-lcrypto -lm"
-	ADDON+=USE_QUIC=1
-	ADDON+=USE_QUIC_OPENSSL_COMPAT=1
 endif
 
 define Build/Compile
@@ -94,7 +92,7 @@ define Build/Compile
 		PCREDIR="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/" \
 		USE_LUA=1 LUA_LIB_NAME="lua5.3" LUA_INC="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/lua5.3" LUA_LIB="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib" \
 		SMALL_OPTS="-DBUFSIZE=16384 -DMAXREWRITE=1030 -DSYSTEM_MAXCONN=165530" \
-		USE_ZLIB=1 USE_PCRE2=1 USE_PCRE2_JIT=1 USE_PTHREAD_PSHARED=1 USE_LIBATOMIC=1 USE_PROMEX=1 \
+		USE_ZLIB=1 USE_PCRE=1 USE_PCRE_JIT=1 USE_PTHREAD_PSHARED=1 USE_LIBATOMIC=1 USE_PROMEX=1 \
 		VERSION="$(PKG_VERSION)" SUBVERS="-$(PKG_RELEASE)" \
 		VERDATE="$(shell date -d @$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) '+%Y/%m/%d')" IGNOREGIT=1 \
 		$(ADDON) \
diff --git a/net/haproxy/get-latest-patches.sh b/net/haproxy/get-latest-patches.sh
index c5b766cb..dc1451ff 100755
--- a/net/haproxy/get-latest-patches.sh
+++ b/net/haproxy/get-latest-patches.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-CLONEURL=https://git.haproxy.org/git/haproxy-3.0.git
-BASE_TAG=v3.0.0
+CLONEURL=https://git.haproxy.org/git/haproxy-2.8.git
+BASE_TAG=v2.8.5
 TMP_REPODIR=tmprepo
 PATCHESDIR=patches
 
@@ -24,4 +24,3 @@ done
 rm -rf "${TMP_REPODIR}"
 
 printf "finished\n"
-