diff --git a/development/git-cola/README b/development/git-cola/README
index c469e8f007..84bd80501c 100644
--- a/development/git-cola/README
+++ b/development/git-cola/README
@@ -1 +1 @@
-git-cola is a Python-power, GPL licensed GUI for git.
+git-cola is a Python-powered GPL licensed GUI for git.
diff --git a/development/git-cola/git-cola.SlackBuild b/development/git-cola/git-cola.SlackBuild
index 169b4d014d..aec7a7ad03 100644
--- a/development/git-cola/git-cola.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/git-cola/git-cola.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by Andrew Rowland <darowland@ieee.org>
 
 PRGNAM=git-cola
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.7.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/development/git-cola/git-cola.info b/development/git-cola/git-cola.info
index 8ae6e6a21b..e05a16fd1d 100644
--- a/development/git-cola/git-cola.info
+++ b/development/git-cola/git-cola.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="git-cola"
-VERSION="1.7.7"
+VERSION="1.8.2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://git-cola.github.com/index.html"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/downloads/git-cola/git-cola/git-cola-1.7.7.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="d26636f5a2de0cadfef96df0308cf8b3"
+DOWNLOAD="http://git-cola.github.io/releases/git-cola-1.8.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="b228721a40795656a6b9aff70343d487"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="pyinotify"
+REQUIRES=""
 MAINTAINER="Andrew Rowland"
 EMAIL="darowland@ieee.org"