diff --git a/package/libite/libite.hash b/package/libite/libite.hash
index 3abad09b0a..c593f7a66d 100644
--- a/package/libite/libite.hash
+++ b/package/libite/libite.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Upstream .sha256 from GitHub
-sha256  0185c3e76874c5821825deaf17cd45e81ce49aaa424e09de5f3665243c59026b  libite-2.6.1.tar.xz
+sha256  0550ac5670836db85569786e00860d1d6999df8f74005307c290371c990e1dbd  libite-2.6.2.tar.xz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  3a2b964c1772d03ab17b73a389ecce9151e0b190a9247817a2c009b16d356422  LICENSE
 sha256  c2882adb51555b836f35babc59f618d9ddceadcaa2d1dc80bbd4699614d2cd14  src/chomp.c
-sha256  bff7fa7b74324f13a24d56ebb8b49bc9c63ea01836a1c8b5a6afcbbabed62918  src/pidfile.c
+sha256  b6cc7074a27b26ee4e1ccda8d634d485d0f6f819e564c663c28ed61f4cc2b451  src/pidfile.c
diff --git a/package/libite/libite.mk b/package/libite/libite.mk
index e4bd845487..beb8c27ba7 100644
--- a/package/libite/libite.mk
+++ b/package/libite/libite.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBITE_VERSION = 2.6.1
+LIBITE_VERSION = 2.6.2
 LIBITE_SOURCE = libite-$(LIBITE_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBITE_SITE = https://github.com/troglobit/libite/releases/download/v$(LIBITE_VERSION)
 LIBITE_LICENSE = MIT, X11, ISC, BSD-2-Clause