diff --git a/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.hash b/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.hash
index 3ff4d9a546..34893d280b 100644
--- a/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.hash
+++ b/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  2f8c7be8a0bf7c86c72fd5680bc19a9e8f98792d40c94a0fee30ceb6428b8f33  org.eclipse.tcf.agent-1.7.0.tar.gz
+sha256  64131790c7d4636d4abff8516d5b4b6329e4d3e691f44dc604e2c30f55edb0dd  org.eclipse.tcf.agent-1.8.0.tar.xz
 
 # Hash for license files:
 sha256  f82d01b74a513bd3504d08136026a5ac2a7e6ff62ebcde391fa74aa222d11ce0  agent/edl-v10.html
diff --git a/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.mk b/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.mk
index 2b8a61b66f..9d955d4b6f 100644
--- a/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.mk
+++ b/package/tcf-agent/tcf-agent.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TCF_AGENT_VERSION = 1.7.0
-# the tar.xz link was broken the time this file got authored
-TCF_AGENT_SOURCE = org.eclipse.tcf.agent-$(TCF_AGENT_VERSION).tar.gz
+TCF_AGENT_VERSION = 1.8.0
+TCF_AGENT_SOURCE = org.eclipse.tcf.agent-$(TCF_AGENT_VERSION).tar.xz
 TCF_AGENT_SITE = http://git.eclipse.org/c/tcf/org.eclipse.tcf.agent.git/snapshot
 # see https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/License_List/Licenses_Under_Consideration
 TCF_AGENT_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause