diff --git a/linux.install b/linux.install
index e3d2180..fb6e3aa 100644
--- a/linux.install
+++ b/linux.install
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=
-KERNEL_VERSION=3.7.9-1-ARCH
+KERNEL_VERSION=3.8.0-1-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'