diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bbd9ff04..2de2271d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ osx_image:
 - xcode10.2
 
 env:
-- PYTHON_BUILD_VERSION=3.8-dev
+- PYTHON_BUILD_VERSION=3.8.0
 - PYTHON_BUILD_VERSION=3.7.2
 
 before_install:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
     osx_image: xcode10
 
   allow_failures:
-  - env: PYTHON_BUILD_VERSION=3.8-dev
+  - env: PYTHON_BUILD_VERSION=3.8.0
 
 stages:
 - test shell
diff --git a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.8.0 b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.8.0
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7cd4e708
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.8.0
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#require_gcc
+prefer_openssl11
+export PYTHON_BUILD_CONFIGURE_WITH_OPENSSL=1
+install_package "openssl-1.1.0j" "https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0j.tar.gz#31bec6c203ce1a8e93d5994f4ed304c63ccf07676118b6634edded12ad1b3246" mac_openssl --if has_broken_mac_openssl
+install_package "readline-8.0" "https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/readline/readline-8.0.tar.gz#e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461" mac_readline --if has_broken_mac_readline
+if has_tar_xz_support; then
+  install_package "Python-3.8.0" "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/Python-3.8.0.tar.xz#b356244e13fb5491da890b35b13b2118c3122977c2cd825e3eb6e7d462030d84" ldflags_dirs standard verify_py38 copy_python_gdb ensurepip
+else
+  install_package "Python-3.8.0" "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/Python-3.8.0.tgz#f1069ad3cae8e7ec467aa98a6565a62a48ef196cb8f1455a245a08db5e1792df" ldflags_dirs standard verify_py38 copy_python_gdb ensurepip
+fi