diff --git a/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.hash b/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.hash
index a38c8d5a03..617428feb1 100644
--- a/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.hash
+++ b/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/pexpect/json
-md5  153eb25184249d6a85fde9acf4804085  pexpect-4.8.0.tar.gz
-sha256  fc65a43959d153d0114afe13997d439c22823a27cefceb5ff35c2178c6784c0c  pexpect-4.8.0.tar.gz
+md5  f48d48325ee7f1221add0396ea9e2f14  pexpect-4.9.0.tar.gz
+sha256  ee7d41123f3c9911050ea2c2dac107568dc43b2d3b0c7557a33212c398ead30f  pexpect-4.9.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  4a483ae1c4dc738a6c8b73feb49074e1835da02ab5aa686f2675029906fa364d  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.mk b/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.mk
index d230b11338..469144aa60 100644
--- a/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.mk
+++ b/package/python-pexpect/python-pexpect.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_PEXPECT_VERSION = 4.8.0
+PYTHON_PEXPECT_VERSION = 4.9.0
 PYTHON_PEXPECT_SOURCE = pexpect-$(PYTHON_PEXPECT_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_PEXPECT_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/9b/ff402e0e930e70467a7178abb7c128709a30dfb22d8777c043e501bc1b10
+PYTHON_PEXPECT_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/42/92/cc564bf6381ff43ce1f4d06852fc19a2f11d180f23dc32d9588bee2f149d
 PYTHON_PEXPECT_LICENSE = ISC
 PYTHON_PEXPECT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 PYTHON_PEXPECT_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools