diff --git a/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml b/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
index 2daeeef8f6..43e13f3b4f 100644
--- a/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/debug/gdb/pspec.xml
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
         <IsA>app:console</IsA>
         <Summary>GNU debugger</Summary>
         <Description>GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on 'inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="ef77c5345d6f9fdcdf7a5d8503301242b701936e" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnu/gdb/gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="faa945f77cf9bb5ae9530664f8b34ad21e38088f" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0.1.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>xz-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>texinfo</Dependency>
             <Dependency>guile-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>expat-devel</Dependency>
@@ -26,6 +27,8 @@
     <Package>
         <Name>gdb</Name>
         <RuntimeDependencies>
+            <Dependency>xz</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>libgcc</Dependency>
             <Dependency>guile</Dependency>
             <Dependency>expat</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python</Dependency>
@@ -57,6 +60,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="4">
+            <Date>2018-01-31</Date>
+            <Version>8.0.1</Version>
+            <Comment>Version Bump</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="3">
             <Date>2017-01-29</Date>
             <Version>7.12.1</Version>