diff --git a/pkg/readline/build b/pkg/readline/build
index 3f3d725..d62bd39 100755
--- a/pkg/readline/build
+++ b/pkg/readline/build
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-VERSION="7.0"
+VERSION="8.0"
 SRCDIR="readline-${VERSION}"
 TARBALL="${SRCDIR}.tar.gz"
 URL="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/"
-SHA256SUM="750d437185286f40a369e1e4f4764eda932b9459b5ec9a731628393dd3d32334"
+SHA256SUM="e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461"
 DEPENDS="ncurses"
 
 prepare() {
diff --git a/pkg/readline/rootfs_files.txt b/pkg/readline/rootfs_files.txt
index 0a6174a..0516ba7 100644
--- a/pkg/readline/rootfs_files.txt
+++ b/pkg/readline/rootfs_files.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-lib/libhistory.so.7.0 m 555 0 0
-lib/libhistory.so.7 m 777 0 0
+lib/libhistory.so.8.0 m 555 0 0
+lib/libhistory.so.8 m 777 0 0
 lib/libhistory.so m 777 0 0
-lib/libreadline.so.7.0 m 555 0 0
-lib/libreadline.so.7 m 777 0 0
+lib/libreadline.so.8.0 m 555 0 0
+lib/libreadline.so.8 m 777 0 0
 lib/libreadline.so m 777 0 0