diff --git a/package/rauc/rauc.hash b/package/rauc/rauc.hash
index 677d358158..8351d0266e 100644
--- a/package/rauc/rauc.hash
+++ b/package/rauc/rauc.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# Locally calculated, after verifying against
-# https://github.com/rauc/rauc/releases/download/v1.6/rauc-1.6.tar.xz.asc
-sha256  8b7d37cc1eb57df4f03de3c943dd7be290b78d47be28881e8b1f070e1d5e55df  rauc-1.7.tar.xz
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  d233247c1763b1c56c851d0adef2094b7aa2fcd72decf524a8ac0419188e0978  rauc-1.8.tar.xz
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING
diff --git a/package/rauc/rauc.mk b/package/rauc/rauc.mk
index 8bfb0b79ba..0c81a6cc35 100644
--- a/package/rauc/rauc.mk
+++ b/package/rauc/rauc.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-RAUC_VERSION = 1.7
+RAUC_VERSION = 1.8
 RAUC_SITE = https://github.com/rauc/rauc/releases/download/v$(RAUC_VERSION)
 RAUC_SOURCE = rauc-$(RAUC_VERSION).tar.xz
 RAUC_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1