diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.7.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.8.0.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.7.0.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.8.0.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
index 546ddb2201..7c5959864a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
 	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 else
 	KEYWORDS="amd64"
-	CROS_WORKON_COMMIT="9549a059c85915f1136a4ce1e7fdd7b8cf25fd08" # v1.7.0
+	CROS_WORKON_COMMIT="5393f2e99b1ae3d3b6b232bf428dd15a88714663" # v1.8.0
 fi
 
 PXE_VERSION="1032.0.0"