diff --git a/Formula/vowpal-wabbit.rb b/Formula/vowpal-wabbit.rb
index 6ca4372a64d7f..3d55f8085c5b5 100644
--- a/Formula/vowpal-wabbit.rb
+++ b/Formula/vowpal-wabbit.rb
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ class VowpalWabbit < Formula
   homepage "https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit"
   # pull from git tag to get submodules
   url "https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit.git",
-      tag:      "8.10.2",
-      revision: "32cd2f33a7097bd57f5562faec5809a17723bdba"
+      tag:      "8.11.0",
+      revision: "96ed8316de4391b77f4f29af69f885552a644769"
   license "BSD-3-Clause"
   head "https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit.git"
 
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ def install
     end
     bin.install Dir["utl/*"]
     rm bin/"active_interactor.py"
-    rm bin/"new_version"
     rm bin/"vw-validate.html"
     rm bin/"clang-format"
     rm_r bin/"flatbuffer"