diff --git a/package/frr/frr.hash b/package/frr/frr.hash
index 3a044d4c2a..bb6c32b7bb 100644
--- a/package/frr/frr.hash
+++ b/package/frr/frr.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 030d4e66f577726dfea13bd3a9c669fd41d8fd89b25953a36b5b0966d406ff28  frr-7.5.1.tar.gz
-sha256 8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
+sha256  9d82c11b304ab89a30627fcbb4150f51e639f473f8563976e14101e796240599  frr-8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/frr/frr.mk b/package/frr/frr.mk
index d1ca6e0b18..e707f50ca1 100644
--- a/package/frr/frr.mk
+++ b/package/frr/frr.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FRR_VERSION = 7.5.1
+FRR_VERSION = 8.1
 FRR_SITE = $(call github,FRRouting,frr,frr-$(FRR_VERSION))
 FRR_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 FRR_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ FRR_AUTORECONF = YES
 FRR_DEPENDENCIES = host-frr readline json-c \
 	libyang libnl c-ares
 
-HOST_FRR_DEPENDENCIES = host-flex host-bison host-python3
+HOST_FRR_DEPENDENCIES = host-flex host-bison host-elfutils host-python3
 
 FRR_CONF_OPTS = --with-clippy=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/clippy \
 	--sysconfdir=/etc/frr \