diff --git a/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash b/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
index 3416cfeb39..698342ae99 100644
--- a/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
+++ b/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # locally computed hash
-sha256  2b3e1254b1cca381e77c819b59ca99774ff43530209b9aeb511e1d46588a64f6  leptonica-1.84.1.tar.gz
+sha256  3745ae3bf271a6801a2292eead83ac926e3a9bc1bf622e9cd4dd0f3786e17205  leptonica-1.85.0.tar.gz
 sha256  87829abb5bbb00b55a107365da89e9a33f86c4250169e5a1e5588505be7d5806  leptonica-license.txt
diff --git a/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk b/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
index 0e902c6488..58db93d34c 100644
--- a/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
+++ b/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LEPTONICA_VERSION = 1.84.1
+LEPTONICA_VERSION = 1.85.0
 LEPTONICA_SITE = https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/releases/download/$(LEPTONICA_VERSION)
 LEPTONICA_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause
 LEPTONICA_LICENSE_FILES = leptonica-license.txt