diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/default.nix
index eca8d53c66b9..12a7c1768aed 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/default.nix
@@ -3136,15 +3136,17 @@ let
         mktplcRef = {
           publisher = "shd101wyy";
           name = "markdown-preview-enhanced";
-          version = "0.6.10";
-          sha256 = "sha256-nCsl7ZYwuTvNZSTUMR6jEywClmcPm8xW6ABu9220wJI=";
+          version = "0.8.10";
+          sha256 = "sha256-BjTV2uH9QqCS1VJ94XXgzNMJb4FB4Ee+t/5uAQfJCuM=";
         };
         meta = {
           description = "Provides a live preview of markdown using either markdown-it or pandoc";
           longDescription = ''
-            Markdown Preview Enhanced provides you with many useful functionalities
-            such as automatic scroll sync, math typesetting, mermaid, PlantUML,
-            pandoc, PDF export, code chunk, presentation writer, etc.
+            Markdown Preview Enhanced is an extension that provides you with
+            many useful functionalities such as automatic scroll sync, math
+            typesetting, mermaid, PlantUML, pandoc, PDF export, code chunk,
+            presentation writer, etc. A lot of its ideas are inspired by
+            Markdown Preview Plus and RStudio Markdown.
           '';
           homepage = "https://github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhanced";
           license = lib.licenses.ncsa;