diff --git a/system/wine/wine.SlackBuild b/system/wine/wine.SlackBuild
index 03e9887009..351b393ea5 100644
--- a/system/wine/wine.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/wine/wine.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=wine
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
diff --git a/system/wine/wine.info b/system/wine/wine.info
index 3525fc49c6..4c64989868 100644
--- a/system/wine/wine.info
+++ b/system/wine/wine.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="wine"
-VERSION="1.6.2"
+VERSION="1.8"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.winehq.com/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.winehq.org/pub/wine/source/1.6/wine-1.6.2.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="0f6c56f86befe38e219090915f81f48a"
+DOWNLOAD="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.8.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="96b51a2f2ae727802d71095354e69fef"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64="UNSUPPORTED"
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""