diff --git a/package/gnome2/gst-plugins/gst-plugins.conf b/package/gnome2/gst-plugins/gst-plugins.conf
index 3fa9e095d..2b2506bde 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/gst-plugins/gst-plugins.conf
+++ b/package/gnome2/gst-plugins/gst-plugins.conf
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@
 
 . $base/package/*/*/gnome-2.conf
 
-# ALSA 1.0 API change workaround ... :-(
-var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND " " \
-           "-DALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API -DALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API"
-
 # did not built here ...
 var_append confopt " " "--disable-mpeg2dec"
 
diff --git a/package/gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmbox.desc b/package/gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmbox.desc
index 257c8c71d..884fdcb3d 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmbox.desc
+++ b/package/gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmbox.desc
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Beta
-[V] 0.6.5
+[V] 0.8.0
 [P] X -----5---9 849.500
 
-[D] 1714984329 rhythmbox-0.6.5.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.6/
+[D] 2964828123 rhythmbox-0.8.0.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.8/