diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a1a03c842e5..57ac0ec0f10 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@
   [#8700](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/8700)
 - Bumped luasec from 1.0.2 to 1.1.0
   [#8754](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/8754)
+- Bumped resty.healthcheck from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
+  [#8755](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/8755)
 
 ### Additions
 
diff --git a/kong-2.8.0-0.rockspec b/kong-2.8.0-0.rockspec
index 63255516f7c..70ec9a3c516 100644
--- a/kong-2.8.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-2.8.0-0.rockspec
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "luaxxhash >= 1.0",
   "lua-protobuf == 0.3.3",
   "lua-resty-worker-events == 1.0.0",
-  "lua-resty-healthcheck == 1.5.0",
+  "lua-resty-healthcheck == 1.5.1",
   "lua-resty-mlcache == 2.5.0",
   "lua-messagepack == 0.5.2",
   "lua-resty-openssl == 0.8.8",