diff --git a/package/jq/jq.hash b/package/jq/jq.hash
index d4d8656ea0..344f73d463 100644
--- a/package/jq/jq.hash
+++ b/package/jq/jq.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  478c9ca129fd2e3443fe27314b455e211e0d8c60bc8ff7df703873deeee580c2  jq-1.7.1.tar.gz
-sha256  10e974638a41fadfd72357f2f3a4325e20b856c563365128f72feaa406f8c92d  COPYING
+sha256  91811577f91d9a6195ff50c2bffec9b72c8429dc05ec3ea022fd95c06d2b319c  jq-1.8.0.tar.gz
+sha256  ea9e53f5974239869c51ace8bb6849c9751dee7c9d592180957987a1a133caff  COPYING
diff --git a/package/jq/jq.mk b/package/jq/jq.mk
index ba27e22f7f..f3f4704f37 100644
--- a/package/jq/jq.mk
+++ b/package/jq/jq.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JQ_VERSION = 1.7.1
+JQ_VERSION = 1.8.0
 JQ_SITE = https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-$(JQ_VERSION)
 JQ_LICENSE = MIT (code), ICU (decNumber), CC-BY-3.0 (documentation)
 JQ_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING