diff --git a/srcpkgs/rakudo/template b/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
index 2370c686376..2f3f5d05d95 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template build file for 'rakudo'.
 pkgname=rakudo
-version=2017.12
+version=2018.01
 revision=1
 build_style=configure
 configure_script="perl Configure.pl"
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ homepage="http://rakudo.org"
 license="Artistic-2.0"
 distfiles="https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 nocross=yes
-checksum=2749603829148ec8d361bbcd472bc6b17a44077b09a2dd90791bee388fc35bbe
+checksum=79ac475cf9558128a4551c10c39e62c7e255ef87d4b63aa884b4306bc642689f
 make_check_target="test"