diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/expat b/config/rootfiles/common/expat
index 93b23090b..611c2a203 100644
--- a/config/rootfiles/common/expat
+++ b/config/rootfiles/common/expat
@@ -2,21 +2,21 @@
 #usr/include/expat.h
 #usr/include/expat_config.h
 #usr/include/expat_external.h
-#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.7.5
-#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.7.5/expat-config-version.cmake
-#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.7.5/expat-config.cmake
-#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.7.5/expat-noconfig.cmake
-#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.7.5/expat.cmake
+#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.8.0
+#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.8.0/expat-config-version.cmake
+#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.8.0/expat-config.cmake
+#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.8.0/expat-noconfig.cmake
+#usr/lib/cmake/expat-2.8.0/expat.cmake
 #usr/lib/libexpat.la
 #usr/lib/libexpat.so
 usr/lib/libexpat.so.1
-usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.11.3
+usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.12.0
 #usr/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc
 #usr/share/doc/expat
-#usr/share/doc/expat-2.7.5
-#usr/share/doc/expat-2.7.5/ok.min.css
-#usr/share/doc/expat-2.7.5/reference.html
-#usr/share/doc/expat-2.7.5/style.css
+#usr/share/doc/expat-2.8.0
+#usr/share/doc/expat-2.8.0/ok.min.css
+#usr/share/doc/expat-2.8.0/reference.html
+#usr/share/doc/expat-2.8.0/style.css
 #usr/share/doc/expat/AUTHORS
 #usr/share/doc/expat/changelog
 #usr/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1
diff --git a/lfs/expat b/lfs/expat
index 3f00072bd..f14e48ab5 100644
--- a/lfs/expat
+++ b/lfs/expat
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 include Config
 
-VER        = 2.7.5
+VER        = 2.8.0
 
 THISAPP    = expat-$(VER)
 DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
 
 $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
 
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 97adfd7cb056066e3a3ec9ef1808d298bc935eb0d17ffca23bcf75810290c8ed8377b21d67b2e1b4a27773057f49f95da9a8f2e368d02d266c980bebbeb1b009
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = e7b5f20e9960085d2bcfd88ac590e70a9aaebcc4b1411064d008af638bdf4189730d6fd9772d518dc4c38c3cefc649ed31c1e3ad7de64125377dba8c6d2e01b8
 
 install : $(TARGET)