diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
index 88c7f5b9ff..3f53b51b33 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.13/libxml2-2.13.6.sha256sum
-sha256  f453480307524968f7a04ec65e64f2a83a825973bcd260a2e7691be82ae70c96  libxml2-2.13.6.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.13/libxml2-2.13.8.sha256sum
+sha256  277294cb33119ab71b2bc81f2f445e9bc9435b893ad15bb2cd2b0e859a0ee84a  libxml2-2.13.8.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  c99aae1afe013e50b8b3701e089222b351258043c3025b64053a233fd25b4be7  Copyright
diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
index 148fcd8762..789c6a297e 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.13
-LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).6
+LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).8
 LIBXML2_SOURCE = libxml2-$(LIBXML2_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBXML2_SITE = \
 	https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/$(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR)