diff --git a/package/nettle/nettle.hash b/package/nettle/nettle.hash
index cd32ad442e..14467977bf 100644
--- a/package/nettle/nettle.hash
+++ b/package/nettle/nettle.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz.sig
-sha256  661f5eb03f048a3b924c3a8ad2515d4068e40f67e774e8a26827658007e3bcf0  nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.8.tar.gz.sig
+sha256  7576c68481c198f644b08c160d1a4850ba9449e308069455b5213319f234e8e6  nettle-3.8.tar.gz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  a853c2ffec17057872340eee242ae4d96cbf2b520ae27d903e1b2fef1a5f9d1c  COPYING.LESSERv3
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYINGv2
diff --git a/package/nettle/nettle.mk b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
index bc3708ca94..c3d5fcec64 100644
--- a/package/nettle/nettle.mk
+++ b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-NETTLE_VERSION = 3.7.3
+NETTLE_VERSION = 3.8
 NETTLE_SITE = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive
 NETTLE_DEPENDENCIES = gmp
 NETTLE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES