diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
index c06de7ea6f2..9d645fb1d84 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 , flex, bison, libmnl, libnftnl, gmp, readline }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nftables-0.7";
+  name = "nftables-0.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/files/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0hzdqigdx4i6jbpxbdyq4zy4p4waqn8l6vvz7685ikh1v0wr4qzy";
+    sha256 = "16iq9x0qxikdhp1nan500rk33ycqddl1k57876m4dfv3n7kqhnrz";
   };
 
   configureFlags = [