diff --git a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.hash b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.hash
index a4180812de..a0b975db16 100644
--- a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.hash
+++ b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v1.6/sha256sums.asc
-sha256	c23c24c8d662032da8650c1c84985221be8bbedf4737c1540bba7e4517dfe820	cryptsetup-1.6.7.tar.xz
+sha256	45a6ccd3c65b7d904e58e1cb3656a7e997190b6a05b5ff7c6887e4a41c5f19bc	cryptsetup-1.6.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
index 3655d5dfbd..78cbe8faec 100644
--- a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
+++ b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR = 1.6
-CRYPTSETUP_VERSION = $(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR).7
+CRYPTSETUP_VERSION = $(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR).8
 CRYPTSETUP_SOURCE = cryptsetup-$(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION).tar.xz
 CRYPTSETUP_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v$(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR)
 CRYPTSETUP_DEPENDENCIES = lvm2 popt util-linux host-pkgconf \