diff --git a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
index daa9aca8d0..9f1172464b 100644
--- a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
+++ b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  3fa09d623c2a9488bc6c40072b080ef719a4e78d89e30cc0ddbaabacd4875e37  igh-ethercat-1.6.3.tar.gz
+sha256  e9b97d4a8c3a1224fe9119ada448f4024bacea2ca940a811073170e42d828b76  igh-ethercat-1.6.8.tar.gz
 sha256  231f7edcc7352d7734a96eef0b8030f77982678c516876fcb81e25b32d68564c  COPYING
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING.LESSER
diff --git a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
index 1d93d473da..03f004d2b4 100644
--- a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
+++ b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION = 1.6.3
+IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION = 1.6.8
 IGH_ETHERCAT_SITE = $(call gitlab,etherlab.org,ethercat,$(IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION))
 IGH_ETHERCAT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 (IgH EtherCAT master), LGPL-2.1 (libraries)
 IGH_ETHERCAT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LESSER