diff --git a/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/build.sh b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6e5d5beb7a3df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+fastqc=$PREFIX/opt/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION
+mkdir -p $fastqc
+cp -r ./* $fastqc
+sed -i.bak '1 s|^.*$|#!/usr/bin/env perl|g' $fastqc/fastqc
+rm -f $fastqc/fastqc.bak
+chmod +x $fastqc/fastqc
+mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
+ln -s $fastqc/fastqc $PREFIX/bin/fastqc 
+
diff --git a/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/java_xms.patch b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/java_xms.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e3b72952d4bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/java_xms.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+*** fastqc.orig	2015-10-09 11:59:24.000000000 -0400
+--- fastqc	2015-12-16 13:27:53.953520316 -0500
+***************
+*** 158,167 ****
+--- 158,170 ----
+  	
+  	push @java_args ,"-Dfastqc.threads=$threads";
+  	my $memory = 250 * $threads;
++ 	my $stack = 200 * $threads;
+  	unshift @java_args,"-Xmx${memory}m";
++ 	unshift @java_args,"-Xms${memory}m";
+  }
+  else {
+  	unshift @java_args,'-Xmx250m';
++ 	unshift @java_args,'-Xms200m';
+  }
+  
+  if ($kmer_size) {
diff --git a/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/meta.yaml b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4dc5f6964a572
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/fastqc/0.11.7/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{% set name = "fastqc" %}
+{% set version = "0.11.7" %}
+{% set sha256hash = "59cf50876bbe5f363442eb989e43ae3eaab8d932c49e8cff2c1a1898dd721112" %}
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/{{ name }}/{{ name }}_v{{ version }}.zip
+  sha256: {{ sha256hash }}
+  patches:
+    - java_xms.patch
+
+build:
+  detect_binary_files_with_prefix: true
+  number: 5
+
+requirements:
+  run:
+    # Enforce a version requirement on openjdk to ensure
+    # it comes from the conda-forge channel and not default.
+    # Many yaks were shaved to bring us this information.
+    # Version number reference: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/6948#issuecomment-369360906
+    - openjdk >=8.0.144
+    - perl
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - fastqc -h 
+    - fastqc --version
+
+about:
+  home: 'http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/'
+  license: GPL >=3
+  summary: 'A quality control tool for high throughput sequence data.'
+
+extra:
+  identifiers:
+    - biotools:fastqc
diff --git a/recipes/fastqc/meta.yaml b/recipes/fastqc/meta.yaml
index 4dc5f6964a572..e7b71e8e15372 100644
--- a/recipes/fastqc/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/fastqc/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {% set name = "fastqc" %}
-{% set version = "0.11.7" %}
-{% set sha256hash = "59cf50876bbe5f363442eb989e43ae3eaab8d932c49e8cff2c1a1898dd721112" %}
+{% set version = "0.11.8" %}
+{% set sha256hash = "ca87fe77807e4ac796b6cad949858921fd20652c4038f586f05ece94b5022129" %}
 
 package:
   name: {{ name|lower }}
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ source:
 
 build:
   detect_binary_files_with_prefix: true
-  number: 5
+  number: 0
 
 requirements:
   run: