diff --git a/package/gzip/gzip.hash b/package/gzip/gzip.hash
index 755c4504b3..466f846e12 100644
--- a/package/gzip/gzip.hash
+++ b/package/gzip/gzip.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	fb31c57e7ce7703596ef57329be7cc5c5fd741b4a0f659fea7ee6a54706b41ab  gzip-1.7.tar.xz
+sha256 ff1767ec444f71e5daf8972f6f8bf68cfcca1d2f76c248eb18e8741fc91dbbd3  gzip-1.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/gzip/gzip.mk b/package/gzip/gzip.mk
index b5dc3616bb..6dc910ec15 100644
--- a/package/gzip/gzip.mk
+++ b/package/gzip/gzip.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GZIP_VERSION = 1.7
+GZIP_VERSION = 1.8
 GZIP_SOURCE = gzip-$(GZIP_VERSION).tar.xz
 GZIP_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gzip
 # Some other tools expect it to be in /bin