diff --git a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
index 2386cc2891..f79d418efa 100644
--- a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
+++ b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/docutils/json
-md5  93bcfe0065cf1d0b6a0bcabeca7a2335  docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
-sha256  f08a4e276c3a1583a86dce3e34aba3fe04d02bba2dd51ed16106244e8a923e3b  docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
+md5  c4064e1e0e3cd142951fd2b95b830874  docutils-0.21.2.tar.gz
+sha256  3a6b18732edf182daa3cd12775bbb338cf5691468f91eeeb109deff6ebfa986f  docutils-0.21.2.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256  a0d7ee761e8d757c0b904518514f98233fd94f2398da3703130d15142ca47a77  COPYING.txt
+sha256  534edf7641abde69fc500f228c09751812c0589815eef0c082bc6ba317d646ac  COPYING.txt
diff --git a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
index 2b496f0d46..1f1e043c15 100644
--- a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
+++ b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION = 0.20.1
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION = 0.21.2
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SOURCE = docutils-$(PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1f/53/a5da4f2c5739cf66290fac1431ee52aff6851c7c8ffd8264f13affd7bcdd
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_LICENSE = Public Domain, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, Python-2.0, GPL-3.0+ (emacs mode)
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ae/ed/aefcc8cd0ba62a0560c3c18c33925362d46c6075480bfa4df87b28e169a9
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_LICENSE = Public Domain, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ZPL-2.1, GPL-3.0+ (emacs mode)
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.txt
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SETUP_TYPE = flit
 
 $(eval $(python-package))
 $(eval $(host-python-package))