diff --git a/mingw-w64-python-babel/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-python-babel/PKGBUILD
index 7af7d62aed..14942d1cac 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-python-babel/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-python-babel/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ pkgname=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python-${_realname}")
 provides=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python3-${_realname}")
 conflicts=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python3-${_realname}")
 replaces=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python3-${_realname}")
-pkgver=2.7.0
-_core=35
+pkgver=2.8.0
+_core=36
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications (mingw-w64)"
 url="http://babel.pocoo.org/"
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ checkdepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python-pytest"
 source=("${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"::"https://github.com/python-babel/babel/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
            "core-${_core}.zip"::"https://unicode.org/Public/cldr/${_core}/core.zip")
 noextract=("core-${_core}.zip")
-sha256sums=('d31a563d7b573f2544d49fecc22b58d470a624ebb63fe41583502095e266c462'
-            '2c2fdaaf048d6ecdad7fa535be7a6bf232f1f02c9215edc31a26f1ede836ac48')
+sha256sums=('2d4d29e73e85afd10ff260579303b5479b332eadc393663089dceb14ff6f8b9c'
+            '07279e56c1f4266d140b907ef3ec379dce0a99542303a9628562ac5fe460ba43')
 
 prepare() {
   cd ${srcdir}