diff --git a/packages/gzip/build.sh b/packages/gzip/build.sh
index 68ffd9251..b1d4b2a13 100644
--- a/packages/gzip/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gzip/build.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Standard GNU file compression utilities"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.7
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.8
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz