diff --git a/network/httpie/httpie.SlackBuild b/network/httpie/httpie.SlackBuild
index bf1753ae25..5cca91df9b 100644
--- a/network/httpie/httpie.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/httpie/httpie.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=httpie
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.6}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/network/httpie/httpie.info b/network/httpie/httpie.info
index 639eb0f86a..63d62c716f 100644
--- a/network/httpie/httpie.info
+++ b/network/httpie/httpie.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="httpie"
-VERSION="0.9.6"
+VERSION="0.9.8"
 HOMEPAGE="http://httpie.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/be/52/d85e9d18138cb0bbb396d52d53219f294fcf065eb543a65a4b38a3a0e03c/httpie-0.9.6.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="f2aa1bcc7b6d899155ea0a9232214eeb"
+DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/85/95/7ccea3ae7fd1185e21629f6d14fa9c896d6250bb15fb492efa91edc741a2/httpie-0.9.8.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="e0d1af07d0959a2e081e7954797ce260"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="python-requests Pygments"