diff --git a/snap/local/runtime-helpers/bin/kong-daemon.sh b/snap/local/runtime-helpers/bin/kong-daemon.sh
index 09afc1fc18..f5e5532e2a 100755
--- a/snap/local/runtime-helpers/bin/kong-daemon.sh
+++ b/snap/local/runtime-helpers/bin/kong-daemon.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 KONG=/usr/local/bin/kong
 
-# run kong migrations up to bootstrap the cassandra database
-# note that sometimes cassandra can be in a "starting up" state, etc.
+# bootstrap the database
+# note that sometimes the database can be in a "starting up" state, etc.
 # and in this case we should just loop and keep trying
 # we don't implement a timeout here because systemd will kill us if we 
 # don't succeed in 15 minutes (or whatever the configured stop-timeout is)
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ until "$KONG" migrations bootstrap --conf "$KONG_CONF"; do
     sleep 5
 done
 
+# perform migration for upgrades
+"$KONG" migrations up --conf "$KONG_CONF"
+
 # set up Kong's admin API plugins via kong.yml:
 "$KONG" config db_import "$KONGADMIN_CONFIGFILEPATH" || true
 
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index 9bf4ddfc09..a17ab7c131 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -696,23 +696,23 @@ parts:
       - perl
       - zlib1g-dev
     override-build: |
-      VERSION=2.8.0
+      VERSION=2.8.2
 
       # use dpkg architecture to figure out our target arch
       case "$(dpkg --print-architecture)" in
         amd64)
           FILE_NAME=kong_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
-          FILE_HASH=5715ec10547a2de9e7534d0af402fc8dbdad7145d4b43bbccc7bb960152b0314
+          FILE_HASH=d600227d07cb862b2dd2de3925eca5841b2292ef838af21ddf5f412c9ab0f3ee
           ;;
         arm64)
           FILE_NAME=kong_${VERSION}_arm64.deb
-          FILE_HASH=d980f5c106a36142dd86c04bee4adc0deec3470970f8b0f6d3024c17e13d83d6
+          FILE_HASH=c23b22bf34df1f3a8428c998875e868025557d5f9599fd9bed10b12c9fb8ed57
           ;;
       esac
 
       # download the archive and verify the checksum
       curl --silent --show-error --location --output $FILE_NAME \
-        https://download.konghq.com/gateway-2.x-ubuntu-xenial/pool/all/k/kong/$FILE_NAME
+        https://download.konghq.com/gateway-2.x-ubuntu-focal/pool/all/k/kong/$FILE_NAME
       echo "$FILE_HASH $FILE_NAME" > sha256
       sha256sum -c sha256 | grep OK