diff --git a/development/atom/atom.SlackBuild b/development/atom/atom.SlackBuild
index 309269a2e4..11f12d7703 100644
--- a/development/atom/atom.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/atom/atom.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=atom
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+# FIX electron in 1.7.x and up
+sed -i -e 's/"electronVersion":\ "0.36.8"/"electronVersion":\ "0.36.12"/' package.json
+
 if [ "$DISABLE_METRICS" = "yes" ]; then
     sed -i '/"metrics":/d' package.json
 fi
diff --git a/development/atom/atom.info b/development/atom/atom.info
index ae87730ce0..a031cc7303 100644
--- a/development/atom/atom.info
+++ b/development/atom/atom.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="atom"
-VERSION="1.6.2"
+VERSION="1.8.0"
 HOMEPAGE="https://atom.io/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://codeload.github.com/atom/atom/tar.gz/v1.6.2"
-MD5SUM="c295f403996c327b203daf80e4062d80"
+DOWNLOAD="https://codeload.github.com/atom/atom/tar.gz/v1.8.0"
+MD5SUM="158c18d35d071403db18bdd85fa2e738"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="nodejs"