diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 84b177e..5375aee 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 pkgbase=linux               # Build stock -ARCH kernel
 #pkgbase=linux-custom       # Build kernel with a different name
 _srcname=linux-3.6
-pkgver=3.6.7
+pkgver=3.6.8
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.kernel.org/"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ source=("http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/${_srcname}.tar.xz"
         'module-init-wait-3.6.patch'
         'irq_cfg_pointer-3.6.6.patch')
 md5sums=('1a1760420eac802c541a20ab51a093d1'
-         '134936c362d8812b5cafcf3c67afdce0'
+         'f248294551c34753c5c019c8d513280c'
          '65f7ff39775f20f65014383564d3cb65'
          '3adbfa45451c4bcf9dd7879bed033d77'
          'eb14dcfd80c00852ef81ded6e826826a'
diff --git a/linux.install b/linux.install
index 4ed8580..48d98be 100644
--- a/linux.install
+++ b/linux.install
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=
-KERNEL_VERSION=3.6.7-1-ARCH
+KERNEL_VERSION=3.6.8-1-ARCH
 
 # set a sane PATH to ensure that critical utils like depmod will be found
 export PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'