diff --git a/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.hash b/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.hash
index 9f0fb868f4..d6ba6e5da2 100644
--- a/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.hash
+++ b/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # locally computed
-sha256  b0e4ee0ffcc6111f67a405c6418f5539caa0ab0368adb2027af23fbf17de88a6  pocketpy-2.1.6.tar.gz
-sha256  9dab6fe9086f93847540387be578edc94b6b280004db5ed7c850ccf8f086fd66  LICENSE
+sha256  2b840e0c87c36ae00100fe892301565d7d905e07e1ce1f69cb4b9fcd65bc82ef  pocketpy-2.1.8.tar.gz
+sha256  5ad14c41f26ed1b8c9a0039ae566bc7ce00277aec1634220eae5db2bb8fc54ef  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.mk b/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.mk
index 06aa0faca0..23789dd620 100644
--- a/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.mk
+++ b/package/pocketpy/pocketpy.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-POCKETPY_VERSION = 2.1.6
+POCKETPY_VERSION = 2.1.8
 POCKETPY_SITE = $(call github,pocketpy,pocketpy,v$(POCKETPY_VERSION))
 POCKETPY_LICENSE = MIT
 POCKETPY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE