diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_gir_path.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_gir_path.patch
index d4160b51d68c..f74a7af1cff4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_gir_path.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_gir_path.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+diff --git a/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in b/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
+index e4c9fb3d..3351b184 100644
 --- a/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
 +++ b/gir/cairo-1.0.gir.in
-@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-             xmlns:glib="http://www.gtk.org/introspection/glib/1.0">
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
    <package name="@CAIRO_GIR_PACKAGE@"/>
+   <c:include name="cairo-gobject.h"/>
    <namespace name="cairo" version="1.0"
 -	     shared-library="@CAIRO_SHARED_LIBRARY@"
 +	     shared-library="@cairoLib@/@CAIRO_SHARED_LIBRARY@"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_shlib_path.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_shlib_path.patch
index 775c29855301..c02330adf6d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_shlib_path.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/absolute_shlib_path.patch
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  def _get_option_parser():
      parser = optparse.OptionParser('%prog [options] sources',
                                     version='%prog ' + giscanner.__version__)
-@@ -205,6 +238,10 @@ match the namespace prefix.""")
+@@ -214,6 +247,10 @@ match the namespace prefix.""")
      parser.add_option("", "--filelist",
                        action="store", dest="filelist", default=[],
                        help="file containing headers and sources to be scanned")
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
  # This is a what we do for non-la files. We assume that we are on an
  # ELF-like system where ldd exists and the soname extracted with ldd is
  # a filename that can be opened with dlopen().
-@@ -106,7 +112,8 @@ def _resolve_non_libtool(options, binary, libraries):
+@@ -108,7 +114,8 @@ def _resolve_non_libtool(options, binary, libraries):
              output = output.decode("utf-8", "replace")
  
          shlibs = resolve_from_ldd_output(libraries, output)
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
  
  
  def sanitize_shlib_path(lib):
-@@ -115,19 +122,18 @@ def sanitize_shlib_path(lib):
+@@ -117,19 +124,18 @@ def sanitize_shlib_path(lib):
      # In case we get relative paths on macOS (like @rpath) then we fall
      # back to the basename as well:
      # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/issues/222
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
      if len(patterns) == 0:
          return []
  
-@@ -139,8 +145,11 @@ def resolve_from_ldd_output(libraries, output):
+@@ -141,8 +147,11 @@ def resolve_from_ldd_output(libraries, output):
          if line.endswith(':'):
              continue
          for word in line.split():
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
                      shlibs.append(m.group())
 --- a/giscanner/utils.py
 +++ b/giscanner/utils.py
-@@ -111,17 +111,11 @@ def extract_libtool_shlib(la_file):
+@@ -113,16 +113,11 @@ def extract_libtool_shlib(la_file):
      if dlname is None:
          return None
  
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@
 -        if libdir is None:
 -            return dlbasename
 -        return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
--    # From the comments in extract_libtool(), older libtools had
--    # a path rather than the raw dlname
+-    # Older libtools had a path rather than the raw dlname
 -    return os.path.basename(dlname)
 +    dlbasename = os.path.basename(dlname)
 +    libdir = _extract_libdir_field(la_file)
@@ -139,7 +138,7 @@
 +    return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
  
  
- def extract_libtool(la_file):
+ # Returns arguments for invoking libtool, if applicable, otherwise None
 --- a/tests/scanner/test_shlibs.py
 +++ b/tests/scanner/test_shlibs.py
 @@ -7,6 +7,30 @@ from giscanner.shlibs import resolve_from_ldd_output, sanitize_shlib_path
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
index 8b535f0f8e12..afe4ac427826 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gobject-introspection";
-  version = "1.66.1";
+  version = "1.68.0";
 
   # outputs TODO: share/gobject-introspection-1.0/tests is needed during build
   # by pygobject3 (and maybe others), but it's only searched in $out
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnome/sources/${pname}/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "078n0q7b6z682mf4irclrksm73cyixq295mqnqifl9plwmgaai6x";
+    sha256 = "09sawnv3xj9pzgy2qrrk87dl3jibfphnswb61i5bh0d2h4j28afj";
   };
 
   patches = [