diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 525fce3f6..30f40ee5a 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ preupgrade_changes() {
     [[ "$INSTALLEDVERSION" == 2.4.40 ]] && up_to_2.4.50
     [[ "$INSTALLEDVERSION" == 2.4.50 ]] && up_to_2.4.60
     [[ "$INSTALLEDVERSION" == 2.4.60 ]] && up_to_2.4.70
+    [[ "$INSTALLEDVERSION" == 2.4.70 ]] && up_to_2.4.80
     true
 }
 
@@ -375,6 +376,7 @@ postupgrade_changes() {
     [[ "$POSTVERSION"  == 2.4.40 ]] && post_to_2.4.50
     [[ "$POSTVERSION"  == 2.4.50 ]] && post_to_2.4.60
     [[ "$POSTVERSION"  == 2.4.60 ]] && post_to_2.4.70
+    [[ "$POSTVERSION"  == 2.4.70 ]] && post_to_2.4.80
     true
 }
 
@@ -448,6 +450,11 @@ post_to_2.4.70() {
   POSTVERSION=2.4.70
 }
 
+post_to_2.4.80() {
+  echo "Nothing to apply"
+  POSTVERSION=2.4.80
+}
+
 repo_sync() {
   echo "Sync the local repo."
   su socore -c '/usr/sbin/so-repo-sync' || fail "Unable to complete so-repo-sync."
@@ -595,6 +602,11 @@ up_to_2.4.70() {
   INSTALLEDVERSION=2.4.70
 }
 
+up_to_2.4.80() {
+  echo "Nothing to do for 2.4.80"
+  INSTALLEDVERSION=2.4.80
+}
+
 add_detection_test_pillars() {
   if [[ -n "$SOUP_INTERNAL_TESTING" ]]; then
     echo "Adding detection pillar values for automated testing"
diff --git a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
index 19677f70b..24ba29d98 100644
--- a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
 salt:
   master:
-    version: 3006.6
+    version: 3006.8
diff --git a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
index 2e4ebc93e..dddd6683b 100644
--- a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
 salt:
   minion:
-    version: 3006.6
+    version: 3006.8
     check_threshold: 3600 # in seconds, threshold used for so-salt-minion-check. any value less than 600 seconds may cause a lot of salt-minion restarts since the job to touch the file occurs every 5-8 minutes by default
     service_start_delay: 30 # in seconds.