diff --git a/package/ell/ell.hash b/package/ell/ell.hash
index 418d1a9a2a..034ab74c4b 100644
--- a/package/ell/ell.hash
+++ b/package/ell/ell.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # From https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ell/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  28dabdb1966fd2e47363c44e041de507e9420411b846947efa01b4cb0cda0d6b  ell-0.79.tar.xz
+sha256  672ca1e44dc0ddce1665941754b4e2b3b9203481d7d7a60e0b5f39829d73fa14  ell-0.81.tar.xz
 
 # License files
 sha256  ec60b993835e2c6b79e6d9226345f4e614e686eb57dc13b6420c15a33a8996e5  COPYING
diff --git a/package/ell/ell.mk b/package/ell/ell.mk
index a0ae7a68c8..db9dc80366 100644
--- a/package/ell/ell.mk
+++ b/package/ell/ell.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ELL_VERSION = 0.79
+ELL_VERSION = 0.81
 ELL_SOURCE = ell-$(ELL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ELL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/libs/ell
 ELL_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+