diff --git a/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.hash b/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.hash
index 9ad9041439..92bf65d2f7 100644
--- a/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.hash
+++ b/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # locally computed
-sha256  43e6a9fcb146ad871515f0d0873947e5d497a1c9c60c58cb102a97b47208b7c3  yaml-cpp-0.7.0.tar.gz
+sha256  fbe74bbdcee21d656715688706da3c8becfd946d92cd44705cc6098bb23b3a16  yaml-cpp-0.8.0.tar.gz
 sha256  aa6fcc27be034e41e21dd832f9175bfe694a48491d9e14ff0fa278e19ad14f1b  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.mk b/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.mk
index 367df27ff1..1f87956589 100644
--- a/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.mk
+++ b/package/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-YAML_CPP_VERSION = 0.7.0
-YAML_CPP_SITE = $(call github,jbeder,yaml-cpp,yaml-cpp-$(YAML_CPP_VERSION))
+YAML_CPP_VERSION = 0.8.0
+YAML_CPP_SITE = $(call github,jbeder,yaml-cpp,$(YAML_CPP_VERSION))
 YAML_CPP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 YAML_CPP_LICENSE = MIT
 YAML_CPP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE