diff --git a/package/pound/pound.hash b/package/pound/pound.hash
index 6908b9060c..7fbf01b89b 100644
--- a/package/pound/pound.hash
+++ b/package/pound/pound.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256	cdfbf5a7e8dc8fbbe0d6c1e83cd3bd3f2472160aac65684bb01ef661c626a8e4	Pound-2.7.tgz
+sha256 a7fd8690de0fd390615e79fd0f4bfd56a544b8ef97dd6659c07ecd3207480c25  Pound-2.8.tgz
+sha256 8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  GPL.txt
diff --git a/package/pound/pound.mk b/package/pound/pound.mk
index 6f7cc848f8..9a62cf7a58 100644
--- a/package/pound/pound.mk
+++ b/package/pound/pound.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-POUND_VERSION = 2.7
+POUND_VERSION = 2.8
 POUND_SITE = http://www.apsis.ch/pound
 POUND_SOURCE = Pound-$(POUND_VERSION).tgz
 POUND_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+