diff --git a/package/unrar/unrar.hash b/package/unrar/unrar.hash
index 36450e05e3..81688d7b7d 100644
--- a/package/unrar/unrar.hash
+++ b/package/unrar/unrar.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256	e470c584332422893fb52e049f2cbd99e24dc6c6da971008b4e2ae4284f8796c	unrarsrc-5.4.5.tar.gz
+sha256	9b66e4353a9944bc140eb2a919ff99482dd548f858f5e296d809e8f7cdb2fcf4	unrarsrc-5.5.8.tar.gz
+sha256	6ecc1687808b7d66b24f874755abfed7464d9751ed0001cd4e8e5d9bf397ff8a	license.txt
diff --git a/package/unrar/unrar.mk b/package/unrar/unrar.mk
index f5a95eacc5..d6c97dff2c 100644
--- a/package/unrar/unrar.mk
+++ b/package/unrar/unrar.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-UNRAR_VERSION = 5.4.5
+UNRAR_VERSION = 5.5.8
 UNRAR_SOURCE = unrarsrc-$(UNRAR_VERSION).tar.gz
 UNRAR_SITE = http://www.rarlab.com/rar
 UNRAR_LICENSE = unrar