diff --git a/srcpkgs/rakudo/template b/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
index 40c96e29512..2370c686376 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rakudo/template
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 # Template build file for 'rakudo'.
 pkgname=rakudo
-version=2017.11
+version=2017.12
 revision=1
 build_style=configure
 configure_script="perl Configure.pl"
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --backends=moar"
 hostmakedepends="perl"
 makedepends="nqp libatomic_ops-devel libffi-devel libuv-devel"
-depends="nqp>=2017.10"
+depends="nqp>=2017.12"
 short_desc="Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 language"
 maintainer="Ruslan <axetwe@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://rakudo.org"
 license="Artistic-2.0"
 distfiles="https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 nocross=yes
-checksum=223b81426a6858a11d636221fc3c4103573f96472add053e82a95cec22ede25b
+checksum=2749603829148ec8d361bbcd472bc6b17a44077b09a2dd90791bee388fc35bbe
 make_check_target="test"