diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 18f60c1435c6ef..0e028e3bf97d97 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.7',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.8',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####
 
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/base/optional.h b/deps/v8/src/base/optional.h
index 6ad1b6f74293b0..26ce8384429bf3 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/base/optional.h
+++ b/deps/v8/src/base/optional.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace base {
 
 // These aliases are deprecated, use std::optional directly.
 template <typename T>
-using Optional [[deprecated]] = std::optional<T>;
+using Optional = std::optional<T>;
 
 using std::in_place;
 using std::make_optional;