diff --git a/packages/datamash/build.sh b/packages/datamash/build.sh
index 11f6731643..3ece9ac8e4 100644
--- a/packages/datamash/build.sh
+++ b/packages/datamash/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Program performing numeric, textual and statistical operations"
-TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.7
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.8
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/datamash/datamash-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=574a592bb90c5ae702ffaed1b59498d5e3e7466a8abf8530c5f2f3f11fa4adb3
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7ad97e8c7ef616dd03aa5bd67ae24c488272db3e7d1f5774161c18b75f29f6fd
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true