diff --git a/mysql-ruby/.md5sum b/mysql-ruby/.md5sum
index 38be1d214..861566b5f 100644
--- a/mysql-ruby/.md5sum
+++ b/mysql-ruby/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8ba99330a7b452fb4ae00de2d8e7c413  mysql-ruby-2.7.7.tar.gz
+83b068619f6e9cfb5778125673462f09  mysql-ruby-2.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/mysql-ruby/Pkgfile b/mysql-ruby/Pkgfile
index c1751b18c..c817b4b89 100644
--- a/mysql-ruby/Pkgfile
+++ b/mysql-ruby/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  ruby, mysql
 
 name=mysql-ruby
-version=2.7.7
+version=2.8.1
 release=1
 source=(http://tmtm.org/downloads/mysql/ruby/$name-$version.tar.gz)