diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9258f464036..81e6d6760c7 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2208,7 +2208,7 @@ libmemcached.so.11 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libhashkit.so.2 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libmemcachedutil.so.2 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libc-client.so.1 c-client-2007f_1
-libonig.so.4 oniguruma-6.1.1_1
+libonig.so.5 oniguruma-6.8.1_1
 liblo10k1.so.0 alsa-tools-1.0.29_1
 libgflags.so.2 gflags-2.1.2_1
 libgflags_nothreads.so.2 gflags-2.1.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template b/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
index 46bf6b4c19e..00c8c03ea20 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Template build file for 'oniguruma'
 pkgname=oniguruma
-version=6.7.1
+version=6.8.1
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="A multi-charset regular expressions library"
 maintainer="John Regan <john@jrjrtech.com>"
-license="2-clause-BSD"
+license="BSD-2-Clause"
 homepage="https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma"
 distfiles="https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/releases/download/v${version}/onig-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=81ffafde8f34e6e692c57ec654bf9716ae9b35828ffcb787399259fc0d5564b4
+checksum=ddc8f551feecc0172aacf2f188d096134b8c8a21ede88a312f3a81871b7d7445
 wrksrc="onig-${version}"
 
 post_install() {
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ oniguruma-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/*.a
-		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	}
 }
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ oniguruma-doc_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - documentation"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmkdir usr/share/doc/${sourcepkg}
-		vcopy doc/* usr/share/doc/${sourcepkg}
+		vcopy "doc/*" usr/share/doc/${sourcepkg}
 	}
 }