diff --git a/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.hash b/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.hash
index 4d4907f5dc..2cc8032194 100644
--- a/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.hash
+++ b/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/flit_core/json
-md5  3bc52f1952b9a78361114147da63c35b  flit_core-3.9.0.tar.gz
-sha256  72ad266176c4a3fcfab5f2930d76896059851240570ce9a98733b658cb786eba  flit_core-3.9.0.tar.gz
+md5  38fd365dc980d99107dfccadc96d0c4f  flit_core-3.10.0.tar.gz
+sha256  6d904233178b3c924f665947ac7d286f2ac799fb69087e39e56ceb4084724a97  flit_core-3.10.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  35b4f1dec512e617077fd6980dbb43ef8c2887adc5d0185edb4c04da175dd816  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.mk b/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.mk
index 34e58d03ca..855bb99a93 100644
--- a/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.mk
+++ b/package/python-flit-core/python-flit-core.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_VERSION = 3.9.0
+PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_VERSION = 3.10.0
 PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_SOURCE = flit_core-$(PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c4/e6/c1ac50fe3eebb38a155155711e6e864e254ce4b6e17fe2429b4c4d5b9e80
+PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/52/92/89cceb9c49f3e6c72091304636c5ebc2fc48c546742bbf8a6a474e48e666
 PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 PYTHON_FLIT_CORE_SETUP_TYPE = flit-bootstrap