diff --git a/package/socat/socat.hash b/package/socat/socat.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a876ae223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/socat/socat.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# From http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download.md5sum
+md5	ff56576703dfdeac221357a348c30760	socat-2.0.0-b8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/socat/socat.mk b/package/socat/socat.mk
index ecb762145..eaf13bcd2 100644
--- a/package/socat/socat.mk
+++ b/package/socat/socat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SOCAT_VERSION = 2.0.0-b7
+SOCAT_VERSION = 2.0.0-b8
 SOCAT_SOURCE = socat-$(SOCAT_VERSION).tar.bz2
 SOCAT_SITE = http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download
 SOCAT_LICENSE = GPLv2