diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ma/matrix-continuwuity/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ma/matrix-continuwuity/package.nix
index a02af10a8a25..bccc24e48bd3 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ma/matrix-continuwuity/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ma/matrix-continuwuity/package.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
-  rustPlatform,
+  rustPackages_1_88,
   fetchFromGitea,
   pkg-config,
   bzip2,
@@ -13,35 +13,83 @@
   enableBlurhashing ? true,
   # upstream continuwuity enables jemalloc by default, so we follow suit
   enableJemalloc ? true,
-  rust-jemalloc-sys,
+  rust-jemalloc-sys-unprefixed,
   enableLiburing ? stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux,
   liburing,
   nixosTests,
 }:
 let
-  rust-jemalloc-sys' = rust-jemalloc-sys.override {
-    unprefixed = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-  };
-  rocksdb' = rocksdb.override {
-    inherit enableLiburing;
-    # rocksdb does not support prefixed jemalloc, which is required on darwin
-    enableJemalloc = enableJemalloc && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-    jemalloc = rust-jemalloc-sys';
-  };
+  inherit (rustPackages_1_88) rustPlatform;
+
+  rocksdb' =
+    (rocksdb.override {
+      inherit enableLiburing;
+      # rocksdb does not support prefixed jemalloc, which is required on darwin
+      enableJemalloc = enableJemalloc && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
+      jemalloc = rust-jemalloc-sys-unprefixed;
+    }).overrideAttrs
+      (
+        final: old: {
+          version = "10.5.1";
+          src = fetchFromGitea {
+            domain = "forgejo.ellis.link";
+            owner = "continuwuation";
+            repo = "rocksdb";
+            rev = "10.5.fb";
+            hash = "sha256-X4ApGLkHF9ceBtBg77dimEpu720I79ffLoyPa8JMHaU=";
+          };
+
+          patches = [ ];
+
+          cmakeFlags =
+            lib.subtractLists [
+              # no real reason to have snappy or zlib, no one uses this
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_SNAPPY" true)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "ZLIB" true)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_ZLIB" true)
+              # we dont need to use ldb or sst_dump (core_tools)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_CORE_TOOLS" true)
+              # we dont need to build rocksdb tests
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_TESTS" true)
+              # we use rust-rocksdb via C interface and dont need C++ RTTI
+              (lib.cmakeBool "USE_RTTI" true)
+              # this doesn't exist in RocksDB
+              (lib.cmakeBool "FORCE_SSE43" true)
+            ] old.cmakeFlags
+            ++ [
+              # no real reason to have snappy, no one uses this
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_SNAPPY" false)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "ZLIB" false)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_ZLIB" false)
+              # we dont need to use ldb or sst_dump (core_tools)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_CORE_TOOLS" false)
+              # we dont need to build rocksdb tests
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_TESTS" false)
+              # we use rust-rocksdb via C interface and dont need C++ RTTI
+              (lib.cmakeBool "USE_RTTI" false)
+              (lib.cmakeBool "WITH_TRACE_TOOLS" false)
+            ];
+          outputs = [ "out" ];
+
+          # We aren't building tools, the original package uses this to make sure rocksdb
+          # tools work as expected. Hence we override this and make it empty.
+          preInstall = "";
+        }
+      );
 in
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "matrix-continuwuity";
-  version = "0.5.0-rc.6";
+  version = "0.5.0-rc.8";
 
   src = fetchFromGitea {
     domain = "forgejo.ellis.link";
     owner = "continuwuation";
     repo = "continuwuity";
     tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-xK/jTURQzFJ1FkF1E9cItTxXAgXgTwAiA9/8aE51FvU=";
+    hash = "sha256-5XjEwEYzWANm2k0GKFuHV3no65ReWPbCq+xMUH13zuI=";
   };
 
-  cargoHash = "sha256-+7k1dtrXdonFDXa2Z/qVo4n1hZRmMWEQKKlffki8+/k=";
+  cargoHash = "sha256-uMr1DLwiMwIKN5IeALwQfh2xmAGPyQtxvT/uM0gfPvA=";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
@@ -52,7 +100,9 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
     bzip2
     zstd
   ]
-  ++ lib.optional enableJemalloc rust-jemalloc-sys'
+  ++ lib.optional enableJemalloc [
+    rust-jemalloc-sys-unprefixed
+  ]
   ++ lib.optional enableLiburing liburing;
 
   env = {
@@ -76,6 +126,7 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
     "systemd"
     "url_preview"
     "zstd_compression"
+    "bindgen-runtime"
   ]
   ++ lib.optional enableBlurhashing "blurhashing"
   ++ lib.optional enableJemalloc [