diff --git a/build-package.sh b/build-package.sh
index 1c118c00d..6d9468811 100755
--- a/build-package.sh
+++ b/build-package.sh
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ termux_setup_golang() {
 		termux_error_exit "Unsupported arch: $TERMUX_ARCH"
 	fi
 
-	local TERMUX_GO_VERSION=go1.8
+	local TERMUX_GO_VERSION=go1.8.1
 	local TERMUX_GO_PLATFORM=linux-amd64
 
 	local TERMUX_BUILDGO_FOLDER=$TERMUX_COMMON_CACHEDIR/${TERMUX_GO_VERSION}
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ termux_setup_golang() {
 	rm -Rf "$TERMUX_COMMON_CACHEDIR/go" "$TERMUX_BUILDGO_FOLDER"
 	termux_download https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/${TERMUX_GO_VERSION}.${TERMUX_GO_PLATFORM}.tar.gz \
 	                "$TERMUX_BUILDGO_TAR" \
-	                53ab94104ee3923e228a2cb2116e5e462ad3ebaeea06ff04463479d7f12d27ca
+	                a579ab19d5237e263254f1eac5352efcf1d70b9dacadb6d6bb12b0911ede8994
+
 	( cd "$TERMUX_COMMON_CACHEDIR"; tar xf "$TERMUX_BUILDGO_TAR"; mv go "$TERMUX_BUILDGO_FOLDER"; rm "$TERMUX_BUILDGO_TAR" )
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/golang/build.sh b/packages/golang/build.sh
index 0bd697bb6..7036bacdd 100644
--- a/packages/golang/build.sh
+++ b/packages/golang/build.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://golang.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Go programming language compiler"
-_MAJOR_VERSION=1.8
+_MAJOR_VERSION=1.8.1
 # Use the ~ deb versioning construct in the future:
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2:${_MAJOR_VERSION}
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${_MAJOR_VERSION}.src.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=406865f587b44be7092f206d73fc1de252600b79b3cacc587b74b5ef5c623596
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=33daf4c03f86120fdfdc66bddf6bfff4661c7ca11c5da473e537f4d69b470e57
 TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=go
 TERMUX_PKG_KEEP_STATIC_LIBRARIES=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="clang"