diff --git a/package/sed/sed.hash b/package/sed/sed.hash
index cc3bebafe1..bb48128526 100644
--- a/package/sed/sed.hash
+++ b/package/sed/sed.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.7.tar.xz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.8.tar.xz.sig
 # with the key 155D3FC500C834486D1EEA677FD9FCCB000BEEEE
-sha256	2885768cd0a29ff8d58a6280a270ff161f6a3deb5690b2be6c49f46d4c67bd6a	sed-4.7.tar.xz
+sha256  f79b0cfea71b37a8eeec8490db6c5f7ae7719c35587f21edb0617f370eeff633  sed-4.8.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	e79e9c8a0c85d735ff98185918ec94ed7d175efc377012787aebcf3b80f0d90b	COPYING
+sha256  e79e9c8a0c85d735ff98185918ec94ed7d175efc377012787aebcf3b80f0d90b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/sed/sed.mk b/package/sed/sed.mk
index 6fee598f66..6bb3220553 100644
--- a/package/sed/sed.mk
+++ b/package/sed/sed.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SED_VERSION = 4.7
+SED_VERSION = 4.8
 SED_SOURCE = sed-$(SED_VERSION).tar.xz
 SED_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/sed
 SED_LICENSE = GPL-3.0