diff --git a/multimedia/libdriv/sdl2.xml b/multimedia/libdriv/sdl2.xml
index f17e4fe74d..82f11adc32 100644
--- a/multimedia/libdriv/sdl2.xml
+++ b/multimedia/libdriv/sdl2.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
   <!ENTITY sdl2-download-http "http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-&sdl2-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY sdl2-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY sdl2-md5sum        "cdb071009d250e1782371049f0d5ca42">
-  <!ENTITY sdl2-size          "4.2 MB">
+  <!ENTITY sdl2-md5sum        "3800d705cef742c6a634f202c37f263f">
+  <!ENTITY sdl2-size          "4.7 MB">
   <!ENTITY sdl2-buildsize     "135 MB (with docs)">
   <!ENTITY sdl2-time          "0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 05e7e78642..7b6c612eb9 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-major-version     "11.1">
 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-version           "&pulseaudio-major-version;">
 <!ENTITY sdl-version                  "1.2.15">
-<!ENTITY sdl2-version                 "2.0.7">
+<!ENTITY sdl2-version                 "2.0.8">
 <!ENTITY sound-theme-freedesktop-version "0.8">
 <!ENTITY soundtouch-version           "2.0.0">
 <!ENTITY speex-version                "1.2.0">