diff --git a/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.hash b/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.hash
index f2e72a0bb4..63ab2a276e 100644
--- a/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.hash
+++ b/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/cchardet/json
-md5  e8a5838c4d705346489d4335fda539b2  cchardet-2.3.0.tar.gz
-sha256  e08fade06af9aa4888ad99609a66bbce99ad01c1269c0ea673af75a15a6f762e  cchardet-2.3.0.tar.gz
+md5  112deebf0ead57d5627038c06b289aee  cchardet-2.4.0.tar.gz
+sha256  7b062e7e92e5ab1a00aaf5c164d5f056daae648ba1f144082baf5b4c229b794e  cchardet-2.4.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  107a29ccdd2d778aa2df5462f85dddfa099059abd22e064e07ec2cc9bafc37cd  COPYING
diff --git a/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.mk b/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.mk
index cadd892256..e9102af82c 100644
--- a/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.mk
+++ b/package/python-cchardet/python-cchardet.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_CCHARDET_VERSION = 2.3.0
+PYTHON_CCHARDET_VERSION = 2.4.0
 PYTHON_CCHARDET_SOURCE = cchardet-$(PYTHON_CCHARDET_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_CCHARDET_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/86/80/6b87429533a8a6fc5b970c44a3a844c315c3313377ecc4fb9efeb56a3241
+PYTHON_CCHARDET_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ae/f2/4db3f22a942ab99fbf4860bfc8594ac753ff0601e84d82b20f670e55280e
 PYTHON_CCHARDET_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_CCHARDET_LICENSE = MPL-1.1
 PYTHON_CCHARDET_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING