diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
index 73fd0ecedf..7b9ffc5d47 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.12/libxml2-2.12.9.sha256sum
-sha256  59912db536ab56a3996489ea0299768c7bcffe57169f0235e7f962a91f483590  libxml2-2.12.9.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.13/libxml2-2.13.3.sha256sum
+sha256  0805d7c180cf09caad71666c7a458a74f041561a532902454da5047d83948138  libxml2-2.13.3.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
-sha256  7fb0a66f3989f9bd5c7e5438a3de02cd4a7a47dde0aea2f7ea2ba2ff454ee6a4  Copyright
+sha256  c99aae1afe013e50b8b3701e089222b351258043c3025b64053a233fd25b4be7  Copyright
diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
index b69722b21d..068ce157d5 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.12
-LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).9
+LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.13
+LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).3
 LIBXML2_SOURCE = libxml2-$(LIBXML2_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBXML2_SITE = \
 	https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/$(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_m68k_cf),y)
 LIBXML2_CONF_ENV += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -mxgot"
 endif
 
-LIBXML2_CONF_OPTS = --with-gnu-ld --without-debug
+LIBXML2_CONF_OPTS = --with-http --with-gnu-ld --without-debug
 
 HOST_LIBXML2_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 LIBXML2_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf