diff --git a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
index 9cf1fee97e..54173dc7ff 100644
--- a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
+++ b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases
-sha256  630b2ad50e017a06a81d4f94312bee85465a93cb050a7536c728055de9a41a2b  selinux-python-3.7.tar.gz
+sha256  749025bfa4aa0e009bf3ffc455d565a18d4db71cfe796be4405821717206c25a  selinux-python-3.8.1.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license file
 sha256  204d8eff92f95aac4df6c8122bc1505f468f3a901e5a4cc08940e0ede1938994  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
index 3ea461b37e..ccac245fd8 100644
--- a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
+++ b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION = 3.7
+SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION = 3.8.1
 SELINUX_PYTHON_SITE = https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/$(SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION)
 SELINUX_PYTHON_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 SELINUX_PYTHON_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE