diff --git a/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.hash b/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.hash
index 661c1285e8..4884c55770 100644
--- a/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.hash
+++ b/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases
-sha256  58fe4e481edfb4456c114925442e11389df17394925acdba3de211145ce5ea98  policycoreutils-3.7.tar.gz
+sha256  eef23196b501d141cb95f5fc52ef1a7289f459b65e4415ea0fe9aeedc5d80ef2  policycoreutils-3.8.1.tar.gz
 sha256  204d8eff92f95aac4df6c8122bc1505f468f3a901e5a4cc08940e0ede1938994  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.mk b/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.mk
index 2b53c56e49..3265986bff 100644
--- a/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.mk
+++ b/package/policycoreutils/policycoreutils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-POLICYCOREUTILS_VERSION = 3.7
+POLICYCOREUTILS_VERSION = 3.8.1
 POLICYCOREUTILS_SITE = https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/$(POLICYCOREUTILS_VERSION)
 POLICYCOREUTILS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 POLICYCOREUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE