diff --git a/qemu-agent/.md5sum b/qemu-agent/.md5sum
index 3554693f4..1c03d7127 100644
--- a/qemu-agent/.md5sum
+++ b/qemu-agent/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-08d4d06d1cb598efecd796137f4844ab  qemu-2.7.0.tar.bz2
+17940dce063b6ce450a12e719a6c9c43  qemu-2.8.0.tar.bz2
 c803c81253b0643892bb1db811a37656  qemu-agent
diff --git a/qemu-agent/Pkgfile b/qemu-agent/Pkgfile
index 6e7369338..29bfa1a4a 100644
--- a/qemu-agent/Pkgfile
+++ b/qemu-agent/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  libsdl glib
  
 name=qemu-agent
-version=2.7.0
+version=2.8.0
 release=1
 source=(http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-$version.tar.bz2 qemu-agent)