diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index c21032a1fd2745ea5f3f75b4c9c2499a035398c9..66a2e8f13295394d86658cd20c7842b22d4d073a 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -249,11 +249,11 @@ The text of each license is also included at licenses/LICENSE-[project].txt.
         (Interpreter classes (all .scala files in repl/src/main/scala
         except for Main.Scala, SparkHelper.scala and ExecutorClassLoader.scala),
         and for SerializableMapWrapper in JavaUtils.scala)
-     (BSD-like) Scala Actors library (org.scala-lang:scala-actors:2.11.7 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
-     (BSD-like) Scala Compiler (org.scala-lang:scala-compiler:2.11.7 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
-     (BSD-like) Scala Compiler (org.scala-lang:scala-reflect:2.11.7 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
-     (BSD-like) Scala Library (org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.7 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
-     (BSD-like) Scalap (org.scala-lang:scalap:2.11.7 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
+     (BSD-like) Scala Actors library (org.scala-lang:scala-actors:2.11.8 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
+     (BSD-like) Scala Compiler (org.scala-lang:scala-compiler:2.11.8 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
+     (BSD-like) Scala Compiler (org.scala-lang:scala-reflect:2.11.8 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
+     (BSD-like) Scala Library (org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.8 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
+     (BSD-like) Scalap (org.scala-lang:scalap:2.11.8 - http://www.scala-lang.org/)
      (BSD-style) scalacheck (org.scalacheck:scalacheck_2.11:1.10.0 - http://www.scalacheck.org)
      (BSD-style) spire (org.spire-math:spire_2.11:0.7.1 - http://spire-math.org)
      (BSD-style) spire-macros (org.spire-math:spire-macros_2.11:0.7.1 - http://spire-math.org)
diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml
index 21255ef7a5c453b2e913b9e0a6ce367a9c54fc03..dcc211204d7663ae9aee23f1ec980720efb38ea4 100644
--- a/docs/_config.yml
+++ b/docs/_config.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ include:
 SPARK_VERSION: 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT
 SPARK_VERSION_SHORT: 2.3.0
 SCALA_BINARY_VERSION: "2.11"
-SCALA_VERSION: "2.11.7"
+SCALA_VERSION: "2.11.8"
 MESOS_VERSION: 1.0.0
 SPARK_ISSUE_TRACKER_URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK
 SPARK_GITHUB_URL: https://github.com/apache/spark
diff --git a/external/docker/spark-test/base/Dockerfile b/external/docker/spark-test/base/Dockerfile
index 76f550f886ce4d64f3db8ae63281e707cd05f281..5a95a9387c3109e1d354a17d31130d4bec945147 100644
--- a/external/docker/spark-test/base/Dockerfile
+++ b/external/docker/spark-test/base/Dockerfile
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y less openjdk-7-jre-headless net-tools vim-tiny sudo openssh-server && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-ENV SCALA_VERSION 2.11.7
+ENV SCALA_VERSION 2.11.8
 ENV CDH_VERSION cdh4
 ENV SCALA_HOME /opt/scala-$SCALA_VERSION
 ENV SPARK_HOME /opt/spark