diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_libzim_wasm.yml b/.github/workflows/build_libzim_wasm.yml
index fbe24d0..37e66c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_libzim_wasm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_libzim_wasm.yml
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ jobs:
     # Customizes the Emscripten docker container via the Dockerfile in this repo
     - name: Build the Docker image
       run: |
+        # Sometimes it might be necessary to use a different version of EMSDK for different scenarios
         if [[ $BUILD_TYPE =~ 'source' ]]; then
-          BUILD_VERSION='3.1.12'
+          BUILD_VERSION='3.1.41'
         else
           BUILD_VERSION='3.1.41'
         fi
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 33c0220..ec29650 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ build/lib/libxapian.a : build/lib/libz.a
 
 build/lib/libzim.a : build/lib/liblzma.so build/lib/libz.a build/lib/libzstd.a build/lib/libicudata.so build/lib/libxapian.a
 	# Origin: wget -N --content-disposition https://github.com/openzim/libzim/archive/7.2.2.tar.gz
-	[ ! -f libzim-*.tar.xz ] && wget -N https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/libzim-8.1.0.tar.xz || true
-	tar xf libzim-8.1.0.tar.xz
+	[ ! -f libzim-*.tar.xz ] && wget -N https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/libzim-8.2.0.tar.xz || true
+	tar xf libzim-8.2.0.tar.xz
 	# It's no use trying to compile examples
-	sed -i -e "s/^subdir('examples')//" libzim-8.1.0/meson.build
-	cd libzim-8.1.0; PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/src/build/lib/pkgconfig meson --prefix=`pwd`/../build --cross-file=../emscripten-crosscompile.ini . build -DUSE_MMAP=false
-	cd libzim-8.1.0; ninja -C build
-	cd libzim-8.1.0; ninja -C build install
+	sed -i -e "s/^subdir('examples')//" libzim-8.2.0/meson.build
+	cd libzim-8.2.0; PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/src/build/lib/pkgconfig meson --prefix=`pwd`/../build --cross-file=../emscripten-crosscompile.ini . build -DUSE_MMAP=false
+	cd libzim-8.2.0; ninja -C build
+	cd libzim-8.2.0; ninja -C build install
 
 # Development WASM version for testing with WORKERFS and NODEFS, completely unoptimized
 libzim-wasm.dev.js: libzim_bindings.cpp prejs_file_api.js postjs_file_api.js