diff --git a/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.hash b/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.hash
index d1c7034c08..d52f466084 100644
--- a/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.hash
+++ b/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  85815c711862d01a440db471f12fba462c9949e923966f5859607e652d9c0ae9  libcap-ng-0.7.11.tar.gz
+sha256  f14d23b60ae1465b032e4e8cbd4112006572c69a6017d55d5d3c6aad622a9e21  libcap-ng-0.8.tar.gz
 sha256  32b1062f7da84967e7019d01ab805935caa7ab7321a7ced0e30ebe75e5df1670  COPYING
 sha256  f18a0811fa0e220ccbc42f661545e77f0388631e209585ed582a1c693029c6aa  COPYING.LIB
diff --git a/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.mk b/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.mk
index 914a72333b..03949d740a 100644
--- a/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.mk
+++ b/package/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBCAP_NG_VERSION = 0.7.11
+LIBCAP_NG_VERSION = 0.8
 LIBCAP_NG_SITE = http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng
 LIBCAP_NG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ (programs), LGPL-2.1+ (library)
 LIBCAP_NG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LIB