diff --git a/bazel/WORKSPACE b/bazel/WORKSPACE
index d422c10..7c3588b 100644
--- a/bazel/WORKSPACE
+++ b/bazel/WORKSPACE
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 
 load("@build_bazel_rules_nodejs//:index.bzl", "npm_install")
 
-# emscripten 2.0.7
+# emscripten 2.0.8
 http_archive(
     name = "emscripten",
-    sha256 = "e56accd855a397518caa793760f04c43a53e21e8f000a30b568eceec0c6713bc",
+    sha256 = "96540a6110e079e9fa6c55c2e3ebc1f0a6a3f7fc63014b2cbfa84300c5f6ee4c",
     strip_prefix = "install",
-    url = "https://storage.googleapis.com/webassembly/emscripten-releases-builds/linux/d7a29d82b320e471203b69d43aaf03b560eedc54/wasm-binaries.tbz2",
+    url = "https://storage.googleapis.com/webassembly/emscripten-releases-builds/linux/e4ed6c79f4db8b175d9bbe55869b697aba9bcf2a/wasm-binaries.tbz2",
     build_file = "//emscripten_toolchain:emscripten.BUILD",
     type = "tar.bz2",
 )
diff --git a/emscripten-releases-tags.txt b/emscripten-releases-tags.txt
index c262e19..60a92e2 100644
--- a/emscripten-releases-tags.txt
+++ b/emscripten-releases-tags.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
-  "latest": "2.0.7",
+  "latest": "2.0.8",
   "releases": {
+    "2.0.8":   "e4ed6c79f4db8b175d9bbe55869b697aba9bcf2a",
     "2.0.7":   "d7a29d82b320e471203b69d43aaf03b560eedc54",
     "2.0.6":   "4ba921c8c8fe2e8cae071ca9889d5c27f5debd87",
     "2.0.5":   "461f0f118d8d8e6cfd84e077f3eb010c17a39032",