diff --git a/package/scons/scons.hash b/package/scons/scons.hash
index 8dca99830e..3a8a942ee8 100644
--- a/package/scons/scons.hash
+++ b/package/scons/scons.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/scons/json
-md5  f5a740e94864408902c62bdb47687d9d  SCons-4.7.0.tar.gz
-sha256  d8b617f6610a73e46509de70dcf82f76861b79762ff602d546f4e80918ec81f3  SCons-4.7.0.tar.gz
+md5  37ad818d24ad2f44d6bee5b0f3838706  scons-4.8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  5b641357904d2f56f7bfdbb37e165ab996b6143c948b9df0efc7305f54949daa  scons-4.8.1.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  2f6ac9a1fc98394d18b80dba9bedb9d5626006d44db3fecf7cf3e21cff7e8b1c  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/scons/scons.mk b/package/scons/scons.mk
index b6bfaa0237..f1f76f38a6 100644
--- a/package/scons/scons.mk
+++ b/package/scons/scons.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SCONS_VERSION = 4.7.0
-SCONS_SOURCE = SCons-$(SCONS_VERSION).tar.gz
-SCONS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7b/68/6895065c86c65a9388eb760a43ea695ec5b9b1c98a9675a3bcd682dbe9c0
+SCONS_VERSION = 4.8.1
+SCONS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/76/a2c1293642f9a448f2d012cabf525be69ca5abf4af289bc0935ac1554ee8
 SCONS_LICENSE = MIT
 SCONS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 SCONS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools