diff --git a/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.hash b/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.hash
index 2799078cc8..c48ddbf716 100644
--- a/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.hash
+++ b/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/libevdev/json
-md5  34b48098c1fba26de79a0d67a17a588a  libevdev-0.11.tar.gz
-sha256  e9ca006a4df2488a60bd9a740011ee948d81904be2364f017e560169508f560f  libevdev-0.11.tar.gz
+md5  9bf8acc011c72d1466ae8f0b8f2c5fac  libevdev-0.12.tar.gz
+sha256  02e952632ec6c249cbb9c66f6fa00012ea448b06606c77cd139133bc2fe46b08  libevdev-0.12.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  a547b196da4e5bb9588a6e24f1f36ae9e2349ca5375e2cf9c315186e237d9f6d  COPYING
diff --git a/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.mk b/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.mk
index e5256064c9..cc40adc874 100644
--- a/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.mk
+++ b/package/python-libevdev/python-libevdev.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_VERSION = 0.11
+PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_VERSION = 0.12
 PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_SOURCE = libevdev-$(PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b0/49/2fe589ce1fa6ca0f05ae0b1717923650f2cc6eec6307c71fbc7789738902
+PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/61/6b/e0193f4ba0c3b7d20f8f1b961793d39df5538451c0959abb115020d4ec2d
 PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_LICENSE = MIT
 PYTHON_LIBEVDEV_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING