diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/coreutils/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/coreutils/package.py
index 39d540ce8ecb2bd50407c5b727766bb09e30a4dc..eca635a7120c02fe065e93c5573eb88b82880845 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/coreutils/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/coreutils/package.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class Coreutils(AutotoolsPackage):
     homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
     url      = "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.26.tar.xz"
 
+    version('8.29', '960cfe75a42c9907c71439f8eb436303')
     version('8.26', 'd5aa2072f662d4118b9f4c63b94601a6')
     version('8.23', 'abed135279f87ad6762ce57ff6d89c41')