diff --git a/depends/packages/systemtap.mk b/depends/packages/systemtap.mk
index ad74323d98..541ebeee01 100644
--- a/depends/packages/systemtap.mk
+++ b/depends/packages/systemtap.mk
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 package=systemtap
-$(package)_version=4.7
+$(package)_version=4.8
 $(package)_download_path=https://sourceware.org/ftp/systemtap/releases/
 $(package)_file_name=$(package)-$($(package)_version).tar.gz
-$(package)_sha256_hash=43a0a3db91aa4d41e28015b39a65e62059551f3cc7377ebf3a3a5ca7339e7b1f
-$(package)_patches=remove_SDT_ASM_SECTION_AUTOGROUP_SUPPORT_check.patch
+$(package)_sha256_hash=cbd50a4eba5b261394dc454c12448ddec73e55e6742fda7f508f9fbc1331c223
+$(package)_patches=remove_SDT_ASM_SECTION_AUTOGROUP_SUPPORT_check.patch fix_variadic_warning.patch
 
 define $(package)_preprocess_cmds
   patch -p1 < $($(package)_patch_dir)/remove_SDT_ASM_SECTION_AUTOGROUP_SUPPORT_check.patch && \
+  patch -p1 < $($(package)_patch_dir)/fix_variadic_warning.patch && \
   mkdir -p $($(package)_staging_prefix_dir)/include/sys && \
   cp includes/sys/sdt.h $($(package)_staging_prefix_dir)/include/sys/sdt.h
 endef
diff --git a/depends/patches/systemtap/fix_variadic_warning.patch b/depends/patches/systemtap/fix_variadic_warning.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93cc2d6081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/depends/patches/systemtap/fix_variadic_warning.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Could be dropped after a migration to C++20.
+See: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/26916.
+
+diff --git a/includes/sys/sdt.h b/includes/sys/sdt.h
+index 4075a5f..7c6138c 100644
+--- a/includes/sys/sdt.h
++++ b/includes/sys/sdt.h
+@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ __extension__ extern unsigned long long __sdt_unsp;
+   _SDT_ASM_1(.purgem _SDT_TYPE_)					      \
+   _SDT_ASM_1(.purgem _SDT_TYPE)
+ 
+-#define _SDT_ASM_BODY(provider, name, pack_args, args, ...)		      \
++#define _SDT_ASM_BODY(provider, name, pack_args, args)		            \
+   _SDT_DEF_MACROS							      \
+   _SDT_ASM_1(990:	_SDT_NOP)					      \
+   _SDT_ASM_3(		.pushsection .note.stapsdt,_SDT_ASM_AUTOGROUP,"note") \
diff --git a/doc/dependencies.md b/doc/dependencies.md
index bca313c40e..f27487d158 100644
--- a/doc/dependencies.md
+++ b/doc/dependencies.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ These are the dependencies currently used by Dash Core. You can find instruction
 | Qt | [5.15.11](https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/) | [5.11.3](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24132) | No | |  |
 | SQLite | [3.32.1](https://sqlite.org/download.html) | [3.7.17](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19077) |  |  |  |
 | XCB |  |  |  |  | [Yes](https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/develop/depends/packages/qt.mk) (Linux only) |
-| systemtap ([tracing](tracing.md))| [4.7](https://sourceware.org/ftp/systemtap/releases/) |  |  |  | |
+| systemtap ([tracing](tracing.md))| [4.8](https://sourceware.org/ftp/systemtap/releases/) |  |  |  | |
 | xkbcommon |  |  |  |  | [Yes](https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/develop/depends/packages/qt.mk) (Linux only) |
 | ZeroMQ | [4.3.1](https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases) | 4.0.0 | No |  |  |
 | zlib |  |  |  |  | [Yes](https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/develop/depends/packages/qt.mk) |