diff --git a/packages/libgcrypt/build.sh b/packages/libgcrypt/build.sh
index e81cd5a66..1d6447743 100755
--- a/packages/libgcrypt/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libgcrypt/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/libgcrypt/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.7.8
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.8.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=948276ea47e6ba0244f36a17b51dcdd52cfd1e664b0a1ac3bc82134fb6cec199
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=23e49697b87cc4173b03b4757c8df4314e3149058fa18bdc4f82098f103d891b
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libgpg-error"
 # configure tries to detect pthreads by linking with -lpthread, which does not exist on Android:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="ac_cv_lib_pthread_pthread_create=yes"