diff --git a/games/ddnet/ddnet.SlackBuild b/games/ddnet/ddnet.SlackBuild
index 5fc9524c5a3..53e6145212b 100644
--- a/games/ddnet/ddnet.SlackBuild
+++ b/games/ddnet/ddnet.SlackBuild
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=ddnet
 SRCNAM=DDNet
-VERSION=${VERSION:-18.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-18.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/games/ddnet/ddnet.info b/games/ddnet/ddnet.info
index 9661877835a..0c99b96b1be 100644
--- a/games/ddnet/ddnet.info
+++ b/games/ddnet/ddnet.info
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PRGNAM="ddnet"
-VERSION="18.7"
+VERSION="18.8"
 HOMEPAGE="https://ddnet.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://ddnet.org/downloads/DDNet-18.7.tar.xz \
+DOWNLOAD="https://ddnet.org/downloads/DDNet-18.8.tar.xz \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/cc/cc-1.0.73.crate \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/cxx/cxx-1.0.71.crate \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/cxxbridge-flags/cxxbridge-flags-1.0.71.crate \
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DOWNLOAD="https://ddnet.org/downloads/DDNet-18.7.tar.xz \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/quote/quote-1.0.20.crate \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/syn/syn-1.0.98.crate \
           https://static.crates.io/crates/unicode-ident/unicode-ident-1.0.1.crate"
-MD5SUM="a4c6ec9cce27b02b50c82bfb9b8c9da4 \
+MD5SUM="54b98879719f0f75feec35c790f4e1eb \
         8e3a4d0980acef2c4e74485a45de29a9 \
         fda5c633e604f175e07829961763f18f \
         a8b59a9c52b44b92ec73248f3c85c608 \