diff --git a/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.hash b/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.hash
index 525c434f2a..679d552d1c 100644
--- a/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.hash
+++ b/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/lmdb/json
-md5  0996b2df3b8019b76ce1fa37913e41f0  lmdb-1.7.5.tar.gz
-sha256  f0604751762cb097059d5412444c4057b95f386c7ed958363cf63f453e5108da  lmdb-1.7.5.tar.gz
+md5  de895e4a88eeb179aa0c185a08523d62  lmdb-1.8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  44ef24033929e9cc227a7e17287473c452b462d716f118db885c667c80f57429  lmdb-1.8.1.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  310fe25c858a9515fc8c8d7d1f24a67c9496f84a91e0a0e41ea9975b1371e569  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.mk b/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.mk
index 3f92ef066f..dbdc80bfda 100644
--- a/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.mk
+++ b/package/python-lmdb/python-lmdb.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_LMDB_VERSION = 1.7.5
+PYTHON_LMDB_VERSION = 1.8.1
 PYTHON_LMDB_SOURCE = lmdb-$(PYTHON_LMDB_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_LMDB_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c7/a3/3756f2c6adba4a1413dba55e6c81a20b38a868656517308533e33cb59e1c
+PYTHON_LMDB_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/23/19/392f028e7ebcc1cc8212fe8a315a909b7a556278456f0bab9234d3a3b665
 PYTHON_LMDB_LICENSE = OLDAP-2.8
 PYTHON_LMDB_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 PYTHON_LMDB_DEPENDENCIES = host-python-cffi host-python-patch-ng