diff --git a/llvm/PKGBUILD b/llvm/PKGBUILD
index ae31f0c703..82dc69f3c1 100644
--- a/llvm/PKGBUILD
+++ b/llvm/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,25 +3,25 @@
 # Contributor: Jan "heftig" Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=('llvm' 'llvm-libs')
-pkgver=17.0.6
-pkgrel=5
+pkgver=18.1.8
+pkgrel=3
 arch=(x86_64 powerpc64le powerpc64 powerpc riscv64)
 url="https://llvm.org/"
-license=('custom:Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exception')
+license=('Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception')
 makedepends=('cmake' 'ninja' 'zlib' 'zstd' 'libffi' 'libedit' 'ncurses'
              'libxml2' 'python-setuptools' 'python-psutil' 'python-sphinx'
-             'python-recommonmark')
+             'python-myst-parser')
 options=('staticlibs' '!lto') # tools/llvm-shlib/typeids.test fails with LTO
 _source_base=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-$pkgver
 source=($_source_base/llvm-$pkgver.src.tar.xz{,.sig}
         $_source_base/cmake-$pkgver.src.tar.xz{,.sig}
         $_source_base/third-party-$pkgver.src.tar.xz{,.sig}
         llvm-ppc64-elfv2.patch)
-sha256sums=('b638167da139126ca11917b6880207cc6e8f9d1cbb1a48d87d017f697ef78188'
+sha256sums=('f68cf90f369bc7d0158ba70d860b0cb34dbc163d6ff0ebc6cfa5e515b9b2e28d'
             'SKIP'
-            '807f069c54dc20cb47b21c1f6acafdd9c649f3ae015609040d6182cab01140f4'
+            '59badef592dd34893cd319d42b323aaa990b452d05c7180ff20f23ab1b41e837'
             'SKIP'
-            '3054d0a9c9375dab1a4539cc2cc45ab340341c5d71475f9599ba7752e222947b'
+            'b76b810f3d3dc5d08e83c4236cb6e395aa9bd5e3ea861e8c319b216d093db074'
             'SKIP'
             '8c4e8db0b80b1a86f8cff9aa678b70458503bc8926ecc41e0df953ea14ab3559')
 validpgpkeys=('474E22316ABF4785A88C6E8EA2C794A986419D8A'  # Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com>
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ _get_distribution_components() {
       # libraries needed for clang-tblgen
       LLVMDemangle|LLVMSupport|LLVMTableGen)
         ;;
+      # used by lldb
+      LLVMDebuginfod)
+        ;;
       # testing libraries
       LLVMTestingAnnotations|LLVMTestingSupport)
         ;;