diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
index f30f0c528c..38486c4e4d 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  824b73bd13647800fe4b566a1008ae77fea0e3e3424edab632fcfd8c0b14ba8b  libgit2-1.9.4.tar.gz
-sha256  e3712465634e97cfd850822a4eb5ac7d2f8a10f753189366d5a2060046f28288  COPYING
+sha256  a88a42a4ea9bdab7aa8686eead3bf7d9c6dd74529caca16ab22eaa92433d31d9  libgit2-1.9.6.tar.gz
+sha256  e0938121c0554985fe17196ac38fc590d149268e9c46e0c0e7a2eae1354fae71  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
index 5f18be9550..b4d9984540 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.9.4
+LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.9.6
 LIBGIT2_SITE = $(call github,libgit2,libgit2,v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION))
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE = \
 	GPL-2.0 with linking exception, \