diff --git a/xorg-xcb-proto/.md5sum b/xorg-xcb-proto/.md5sum
index c49e0b15..6498fa54 100644
--- a/xorg-xcb-proto/.md5sum
+++ b/xorg-xcb-proto/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-948fec39dd42f3694edd5d9689735ec4  xcb-proto-1.7.1.tar.bz2
+a5de3432cc6e43cc6a27f241dbb991b1  xcb-proto-1.8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/xorg-xcb-proto/Pkgfile b/xorg-xcb-proto/Pkgfile
index da472734..9f27824c 100644
--- a/xorg-xcb-proto/Pkgfile
+++ b/xorg-xcb-proto/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on: python
 
 name=xorg-xcb-proto
-version=1.7.1
+version=1.8
 release=1
 source=(http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-proto-$version.tar.bz2)