diff --git a/newsbeuter/.md5sum b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
index 843eac5f7..d5d75d67f 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/.md5sum
+++ b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-cc8d43e8957875608d3b77679f437af6  newsbeuter-2.7.tar.gz
+5d8f1a5eed700beccfeb512ae003613d  newsbeuter-2.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
index 345445ac9..edd548ec8 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
+++ b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  curl libxml2 sqlite3 stfl json-c
 
 name=newsbeuter
-version=2.7
+version=2.8
 release=1
 source=(http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/$name-$version.tar.gz)