diff --git a/packages/lang/gcc/package.mk b/packages/lang/gcc/package.mk
index 221ec13f1d..fd052f604c 100644
--- a/packages/lang/gcc/package.mk
+++ b/packages/lang/gcc/package.mk
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
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 PKG_NAME="gcc"
-PKG_VERSION="7.3.0"
-PKG_SHA256="832ca6ae04636adbb430e865a1451adf6979ab44ca1c8374f61fba65645ce15c"
+PKG_VERSION="8.1.0"
+PKG_SHA256="1d1866f992626e61349a1ccd0b8d5253816222cdc13390dcfaa74b093aa2b153"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://gcc.gnu.org/"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ PKG_DEPENDS_BOOTSTRAP="ccache:host autoconf:host binutils:host gmp:host mpfr:hos
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="gcc:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host autoconf:host binutils:host gmp:host mpfr:host mpc:host glibc"
 PKG_SECTION="lang"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection Version 4 (aka GNU C Compiler)"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection (aka GNU C Compiler)"
 PKG_LONGDESC="This package contains the GNU Compiler Collection. It includes compilers for the languages C, C++, Objective C, Fortran 95, Java and others ... This GCC contains the Stack-Smashing Protector Patch which can be enabled with the -fstack-protector command-line option. More information about it ca be found at http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/."
 
 GCC_COMMON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--target=$TARGET_NAME \