diff --git a/general/prog/php.xml b/general/prog/php.xml
index 8db6620ab9..88cd9397c1 100644
--- a/general/prog/php.xml
+++ b/general/prog/php.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY php-download-http "http://www.php.net/distributions/php-&php-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY php-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "3714de04f777c1925abb0f7d6646e99d">
+  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "ebf0d05fe3bf5b72f5d09c1174934b91">
   <!ENTITY php-size          "12 MB">
   <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "567 MB (add 2 MB for tests, add 111 MB for documentation)">
-  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.1 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 2.7 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.6 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 2.7 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="php" xreflabel="PHP-&php-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 444e18821b..c05a68ac6b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
           <para>[thomas] - Update to httpd-2.4.34.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10948">#10948</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[thomas] - Update to php-7.2.8.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10965">#10965</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index d9ace77522..e8a9781375 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.13.03">
 <!ENTITY ninja-version                "1.8.2">
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
-<!ENTITY php-version                  "7.2.7">
+<!ENTITY php-version                  "7.2.8">
 <!ENTITY python2-version              "2.7.15">
 <!ENTITY python3-version              "3.6.5">
 <!ENTITY ruby-minor-version           "2.5">