diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6e13bd5..5906f7e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ament_add_default_options()
 # NO_CMAKE_PACKAGE_REGISTRY used to avoid finding the library downloaded in WORKSPACE B
 # when building workspace A.
 # This should only find a system installed yaml-cpp and thus the environment hook isn't needed.
-find_package(yaml-cpp QUIET NO_CMAKE_PACKAGE_REGISTRY)
+find_package(yaml-cpp 0.8.0 QUIET NO_CMAKE_PACKAGE_REGISTRY)
 
 set(YAML_CPP_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
 if(MSVC)
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ endif()
 ament_vendor(yaml_cpp_vendor
   SATISFIED ${yaml-cpp_FOUND}
   VCS_URL https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git
-  VCS_VERSION yaml-cpp-0.7.0
-  PATCHES patches
+  VCS_VERSION 0.8.0
+  GLOBAL_HOOK
   CMAKE_ARGS
     "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=${YAML_CPP_CXX_FLAGS}"
     -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_CONTRIB:BOOL=OFF
diff --git a/patches/0001-disable-shadow-warning.patch b/patches/0001-disable-shadow-warning.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b6debb..0000000
--- a/patches/0001-disable-shadow-warning.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/CMakeLists.txt	2023-12-01 16:47:18.388383723 +0000
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	2023-12-01 16:47:23.630353853 +0000
-@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ endif()
- 
- target_compile_options(yaml-cpp
-   PRIVATE
--    $<${not-msvc}:-Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Weffc++ -Wno-long-long>
-+    $<${not-msvc}:-Wall -Wextra -Weffc++ -Wno-long-long>
-     $<${not-msvc}:-pedantic -pedantic-errors>
- 
-     $<$<AND:${backport-msvc-runtime},${msvc-rt-mtd-static}>:-MTd>
diff --git a/yaml_cpp_vendor-extras.cmake.in b/yaml_cpp_vendor-extras.cmake.in
index d3bf920..2c09e7c 100644
--- a/yaml_cpp_vendor-extras.cmake.in
+++ b/yaml_cpp_vendor-extras.cmake.in
@@ -5,21 +5,3 @@ else()
   set(yaml-cpp_DIR "${@PROJECT_NAME@_DIR}/../../../opt/yaml_cpp_vendor/share/cmake/yaml-cpp")
 endif()
 message(STATUS "Setting yaml-cpp_DIR to: '${yaml-cpp_DIR}'")
-
-find_package(yaml-cpp REQUIRED)
-
-set(yaml_cpp_vendor_LIBRARIES ${YAML_CPP_LIBRARIES})
-set(yaml_cpp_vendor_INCLUDE_DIRS ${YAML_CPP_INCLUDE_DIR})
-
-# since yaml-cpp 0.8.0, yaml-cpp supports the yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp target
-if(TARGET yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp)
-  list(APPEND yaml_cpp_vendor_TARGETS yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp)
-else()
-  list(APPEND yaml_cpp_vendor_TARGETS yaml-cpp)
-  if(WIN32)
-    # On Windows, yaml-cpp 0.7.0 requires that downstream consumers set YAML_CPP_DLL and
-    # not yaml_cpp_EXPORT in order to set dllimport properly.
-    # This behavior will likely change in future versions of yaml-cpp.
-    set_target_properties(yaml-cpp PROPERTIES INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS YAML_CPP_DLL)
-  endif()
-endif()