diff --git a/package/expat/expat.hash b/package/expat/expat.hash
index 262ad4bf0d..41778fc536 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.hash
+++ b/package/expat/expat.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/tag/R_2_8_5
-sha256  1e727b8933ec51a77a9a9d9afcf8e688bce45d907c13e36ab7393fe36e703182  expat-2.8.5.tar.xz
+# From https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/tag/R_2_9_0
+sha256  1e6371862cc31999b368c3b89b49994f0677e1bab5f1b2b85ae3741f5d803051  expat-2.9.0.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  31b15de82aa19a845156169a17a5488bf597e561b2c318d159ed583139b25e87  COPYING
diff --git a/package/expat/expat.mk b/package/expat/expat.mk
index be4180992f..be5d8ae0b8 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.mk
+++ b/package/expat/expat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EXPAT_VERSION = 2.8.5
+EXPAT_VERSION = 2.9.0
 EXPAT_SITE = https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_$(subst .,_,$(EXPAT_VERSION))
 EXPAT_SOURCE = expat-$(EXPAT_VERSION).tar.xz
 EXPAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES