diff --git a/package/nginx/nginx.hash b/package/nginx/nginx.hash
index 7e0dc5e1ff..fe4d6b2f01 100644
--- a/package/nginx/nginx.hash
+++ b/package/nginx/nginx.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	23cca1239990c818d8f6da118320c4979aadf5386deda691b1b7c2c96b9df3d5	nginx-1.8.0.tar.gz
+sha256	8f4b3c630966c044ec72715754334d1fdf741caa1d5795fb4646c27d09f797b7	nginx-1.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/nginx/nginx.mk b/package/nginx/nginx.mk
index 8e23bd8e10..7348e485ef 100644
--- a/package/nginx/nginx.mk
+++ b/package/nginx/nginx.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-NGINX_VERSION = 1.8.0
+NGINX_VERSION = 1.8.1
 NGINX_SITE = http://nginx.org/download
 NGINX_LICENSE = BSD-2c
 NGINX_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE