diff --git a/package/genimage/genimage.hash b/package/genimage/genimage.hash
index 71b7601bf5..b01ea46028 100644
--- a/package/genimage/genimage.hash
+++ b/package/genimage/genimage.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	7366dcfe4c542298ffe8a6c8d3551b1c3a84e25bfbb76ca75b9692e974f4534a	genimage-7.tar.xz
+sha256	363b2222b8036eca927c464994e7a877539adc3ea9ba895c1e2186f0589fafbf	genimage-8.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/genimage/genimage.mk b/package/genimage/genimage.mk
index 07d95a426c..2dffbc55cf 100644
--- a/package/genimage/genimage.mk
+++ b/package/genimage/genimage.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GENIMAGE_VERSION = 7
+GENIMAGE_VERSION = 8
 GENIMAGE_SOURCE = genimage-$(GENIMAGE_VERSION).tar.xz
 GENIMAGE_SITE = http://www.pengutronix.de/software/genimage/download
 GENIMAGE_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libconfuse