diff --git a/Library/Formula/uberftp.rb b/Library/Formula/uberftp.rb
index 5267bef8d658..60b6ea36abcb 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/uberftp.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/uberftp.rb
@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
 class Uberftp < Formula
   desc "Interactive GridFTP client"
   homepage "http://dims.ncsa.illinois.edu/set/uberftp/"
-  url "https://github.com/JasonAlt/UberFTP/archive/Version_2_7.tar.gz"
-  sha256 "29a111a86fa70dbbc529a5d3e5a6befc1681e64e32dc019a1a6a98cd43ffb204"
+  url "https://github.com/JasonAlt/UberFTP/archive/Version_2_8.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "8a397d6ef02bb714bb0cbdb259819fc2311f5d36231783cd520d606c97759c2a"
 
   depends_on "globus-toolkit"
 
   def install
-    # get the flavor
     globus = Formula["globus-toolkit"].opt_prefix
 
-    core = `"#{globus}/sbin/gpt-query" globus_core`
-    flavor = case core
-    when /gcc64dbg/ then "gcc64dbg"
-    when /gcc32dbg/ then "gcc32dbg"
-    end
+   # patch needed since location changed with globus-toolkit versions>=6.0,
+   # patch to upstream is not yet merged
+   # (located at https://github.com/JasonAlt/UberFTP/pull/8)
+   # but solves not whole problem (needs aditional patch)
+    inreplace "configure", "globus_location/include/globus/gcc64dbg", "globus_location/libexec/include"
+    inreplace "configure", "globus_location/lib64", "globus_location/libexec/lib"
 
     system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}",
-                          "--with-globus-flavor=#{flavor}",
                           "--with-globus=#{globus}"
     system "make"
     system "make", "install"