diff --git a/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.hash b/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.hash
index 4ca6a3e33e..04f33926d5 100644
--- a/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.hash
+++ b/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  e8b8b98c60a5b68b25e3462c4104c35d05b975e6778d38d8a81b8ff7c0e64c5b  syslog-ng-4.8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  f82732a8e639373037d2b69c0e6d5d6594290f0350350f7a146af4cd8ab9e2c7  syslog-ng-4.8.3.tar.gz
 sha256  d7d51f8d0f6ee9757a371080e7f5fa19ac73afbef14db6e981705cf1ec813d6b  COPYING
 sha256  ce3324c9f22299cfc7c281e5a6ab40fbe9c2ea1a67cee87226cb8cd39db1e1d2  GPL.txt
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  LGPL.txt
diff --git a/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.mk b/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.mk
index 6f608eed0d..fa405ca5cb 100644
--- a/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.mk
+++ b/package/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # When updating the version, please check at runtime if the version in
 # syslog-ng.conf header needs to be updated
-SYSLOG_NG_VERSION = 4.8.1
+SYSLOG_NG_VERSION = 4.8.3
 SYSLOG_NG_SITE = https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/download/syslog-ng-$(SYSLOG_NG_VERSION)
 SYSLOG_NG_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+ (syslog-ng core), GPL-2.0+ (modules)
 SYSLOG_NG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING GPL.txt LGPL.txt