diff --git a/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.SlackBuild b/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.SlackBuild
index 4545fed4d9..6d38568adc 100644
--- a/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=newtonsoft-json
-VERSION=${VERSION:-6.0.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-8.0.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-tar xvf $CWD/$VERSION.tar.gz
+# Make sure sbokpg can extract the source
+tar xvf $CWD/Newtonsoft.Json-$VERSION.tar.gz || tar xvf $CWD/$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd Newtonsoft.Json-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.info b/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.info
index f4d6ce353c..fd2a38c774 100644
--- a/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.info
+++ b/development/newtonsoft-json/newtonsoft-json.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="newtonsoft-json"
-VERSION="6.0.4"
+VERSION="8.0.2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://james.newtonking.com/json"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/archive/6.0.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="7d0c0985f3930e57d802023f5958ed3a"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/archive/8.0.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="f2af1f6fc56109e45f4562c7139d9997"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="mono"