diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 537b4169fe2..dfb7430003e 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ libkdcraw.so.23 libkdcraw-4.13.3_1
 libchm.so.0 libchmlib-0.40_1
 libokularcore.so.5 libokular-4.14.2_1
 libmnl.so.0 libmnl-1.0.3_1
-libnftnl.so.4 libnftnl-1.0.5_1
+libnftnl.so.7 libnftnl-1.0.8_1
 libfcgi.so.0 fcgi-2.4.0_2
 libdshconfig.so.1 libdshconfig-0.20.13_1
 libpar2.so.1 libpar2-0.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libnftnl/template b/srcpkgs/libnftnl/template
index 69cf9d78781..9ee9f689c5f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libnftnl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libnftnl/template
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'libnftnl'
 pkgname=libnftnl
-version=1.0.7
+version=1.0.8
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libmnl-devel"
 short_desc="Low-level netlink interface to nf_tables"
-maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/"
 distfiles="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/${pkgname}/files/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=9bb66ecbc64b8508249402f0093829f44177770ad99f6042b86b3a467d963982
+checksum=e6bdd799ef9c59fc247954aba9f2c6469d8e04cfaee73526728011eaa3632038
 
 libnftnl-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"