diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.hash b/package/qemu/qemu.hash
index 572a5c911a..19cb306938 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.hash
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally computed, tarball verified with GPG signature
-sha256 326e739506ba690daf69fc17bd3913a6c313d9928d743bd8eddb82f403f81e53  qemu-2.7.0.tar.bz2
+sha256 dafd5d7f649907b6b617b822692f4c82e60cf29bc0fc58bc2036219b591e5e62  qemu-2.8.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.mk b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
index 66efcba345..e744556d9b 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.mk
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-QEMU_VERSION = 2.7.0
+QEMU_VERSION = 2.8.0
 QEMU_SOURCE = qemu-$(QEMU_VERSION).tar.bz2
 QEMU_SITE = http://wiki.qemu.org/download
 QEMU_LICENSE = GPLv2, LGPLv2.1, MIT, BSD-3c, BSD-2c, Others/BSD-1c