diff --git a/repos/gems/run/sculpt.run b/repos/gems/run/sculpt.run
index 4dcf13f3e..7aa4e9d88 100644
--- a/repos/gems/run/sculpt.run
+++ b/repos/gems/run/sculpt.run
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ exec gzip -dc [genode_dir]/repos/gems/run/sculpt/machine.vdi.gz > [run_dir]/geno
 # Note: the string must be exactly 5 bytes long.
 #
 proc sculpt_version { } {
-	return "19.07" }
+	return "19.08" }
 
 # write file with newline (for producing nice output when using 'cat /VERSION')
 set fd [open [run_dir]/genode/VERSION w]