diff --git a/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.hash b/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.hash
index 55b2661fc0..0c4f11bc82 100644
--- a/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.hash
+++ b/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  931c9be5bf1d7c8fae9b7dc157828b7eee874e23c7f24b44ba7eff6b4836312c  SDL2_image-2.6.3.tar.gz
+sha256  e4cab9a58c347a490c46723c17553b4e12233cd821d3b993a8475a50497f5a3e  SDL2_image-2.8.1.tar.gz
 sha256  1852c8549e3d154687197d46abababd3e8faae035f19991b2ca850fa3a43ad57  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.mk b/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.mk
index aaf379788c..ca9d983892 100644
--- a/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.mk
+++ b/package/sdl2_image/sdl2_image.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SDL2_IMAGE_VERSION = 2.6.3
+SDL2_IMAGE_VERSION = 2.8.1
 SDL2_IMAGE_SOURCE = SDL2_image-$(SDL2_IMAGE_VERSION).tar.gz
 SDL2_IMAGE_SITE = http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release
 SDL2_IMAGE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES