diff --git a/package/gsl/gsl.hash b/package/gsl/gsl.hash
index 153ae4131d44..d6a3307e4344 100644
--- a/package/gsl/gsl.hash
+++ b/package/gsl/gsl.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  dcb0fbd43048832b757ff9942691a8dd70026d5da0ff85601e52687f6deeb34b  gsl-2.7.1.tar.gz
+sha256  6a99eeed15632c6354895b1dd542ed5a855c0f15d9ad1326c6fe2b2c9e423190  gsl-2.8.tar.gz
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gsl/gsl.mk b/package/gsl/gsl.mk
index 575cb754621a..f5d22caccff1 100644
--- a/package/gsl/gsl.mk
+++ b/package/gsl/gsl.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GSL_VERSION = 2.7.1
+GSL_VERSION = 2.8
 GSL_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gsl
 GSL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 GSL_LICENSE = GPL-3.0