diff --git a/package/iotools/iotools.hash b/package/iotools/iotools.hash
index 6b1ef3d47d..a72d2a6983 100644
--- a/package/iotools/iotools.hash
+++ b/package/iotools/iotools.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  13b8b87c7d1f22b8d8f50c499af09f9414a0879d69c22393f1051ed4bf28f378  iotools-1.7.tar.gz
+sha256  9cb6184030b2e5c2e6a7c7a2d016d29d42d4075a77e1ba982bdc3cd919491faf  iotools-1.8.tar.gz
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/iotools/iotools.mk b/package/iotools/iotools.mk
index 5c5a657cab..d855f44a05 100644
--- a/package/iotools/iotools.mk
+++ b/package/iotools/iotools.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IOTOOLS_VERSION = 1.7
+IOTOOLS_VERSION = 1.8
 IOTOOLS_SITE = $(call github,andy-shev,iotools,v$(IOTOOLS_VERSION))
 IOTOOLS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 IOTOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING