diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
index 536a0b7405..3f11309750 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  49d0fc50ab931816f6bfc1ac68f8d74b760450eebdb5374e803ee36550f26774  libgit2-1.8.4.tar.gz
+sha256  75b27d4d6df44bd34e2f70663cfd998f5ec41e680e1e593238bbe517a84c7ed2  libgit2-1.9.0.tar.gz
 sha256  e3712465634e97cfd850822a4eb5ac7d2f8a10f753189366d5a2060046f28288  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
index 3bf3dbb647..4026ac1f7c 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.8.4
+LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.9.0
 LIBGIT2_SITE = $(call github,libgit2,libgit2,v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION))
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE = \
 	GPL-2.0 with linking exception, \