diff --git a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
index 0987d247b..ff5c59cbc 100644
--- a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
+++ b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.7.0
+[V] 1.8.1
 [P] X -?---5---9 194.000
 
-[D] 3629263738 mdadm-1.7.0.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+[D] 996089275 mdadm-1.8.1.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/