diff --git a/package/botan/botan.hash b/package/botan/botan.hash
index eeb94145b9..faa467ec25 100644
--- a/package/botan/botan.hash
+++ b/package/botan/botan.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://botan.randombit.net/releases/sha256sums.txt
-sha256 e42df91556317588c6ca0e41bf796f9bd5ec5c70e0668e6c97c608c697c24a90  Botan-2.7.0.tgz
+sha256 e7159b127e91e0c158245d61c638c50d443ec7b440b6b0161328c47b3aba3960  Botan-2.8.0.tgz
 # Locally computed
 sha256 40cfd35a9e34d18463806f57553c968fdbaf254a2e2a636d1d8e32ff6b698495  license.txt
diff --git a/package/botan/botan.mk b/package/botan/botan.mk
index 59aa1f0803..3de54aa3e1 100644
--- a/package/botan/botan.mk
+++ b/package/botan/botan.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BOTAN_VERSION = 2.7.0
+BOTAN_VERSION = 2.8.0
 BOTAN_SOURCE = Botan-$(BOTAN_VERSION).tgz
 BOTAN_SITE = http://botan.randombit.net/releases
 BOTAN_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause