diff --git a/community/openvdb/PKGBUILD b/community/openvdb/PKGBUILD
index c52aa8afd..af5a43692 100644
--- a/community/openvdb/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/openvdb/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #  - explicitly link v5/v6 with libatomic
 
 pkgname=openvdb
-pkgver=7.2.1
+pkgver=8.0.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A large suite of tools for the efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids'
 url='https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openvdb'
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ optdepends=('glfw: for tools'
             'glu: for tools'
             'python-numpy: python module')
 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openvdb/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha512sums=('ae74c3e54fe5ae5866bc58cf83c0ba291a32dd9af9c87cbf201af7ab169b44af2afc134eaa0c7c37de0471ebde08e1ee325e4e111d69579ad9460892055fb137')
+sha512sums=('b26dea41e5305bbe023362241b82dda7e168f8df9526270e6b214f8442ce7e2135889d79a1944928478ae1a2b24866381b3be4d2d1af7a5726e39724055a6e78')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"