diff --git a/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.hash b/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.hash
index 3b603310f6..872f6cdd8e 100644
--- a/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.hash
+++ b/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # retrieved by scancpan from https://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5  bee9d0cba3f87e05e9613684e4ee2159  JSON-MaybeXS-1.004005.tar.gz
-sha256  f5b6bc19f579e66b7299f8748b8ac3e171936dc4e7fcb72a8a257a9bd482a331  JSON-MaybeXS-1.004005.tar.gz
+md5  63cf8b82a0dadda0dc445f9c70141383  JSON-MaybeXS-1.004008.tar.gz
+sha256  cd3937afa78831f80a2ad5abab6c51b9e82fca4c31e5856ea208d598db5dc867  JSON-MaybeXS-1.004008.tar.gz
 
 # computed by scancpan
-sha256  de7a14750e81d97e19e111df58a3b51e3f2c8ec2d2dd90f576f54243251972c6  LICENSE
+sha256  1505d172444acdfab81b917a3db10543f0b247821932e9c211bb9521467e42dd  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.mk b/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.mk
index 13c9439ea6..76ab2b28b5 100644
--- a/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.mk
+++ b/package/perl-json-maybexs/perl-json-maybexs.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_VERSION = 1.004005
+PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_VERSION = 1.004008
 PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_SOURCE = JSON-MaybeXS-$(PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER
 PERL_JSON_MAYBEXS_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+