diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
index 76d599b81e..022fb35a9c 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  17d2b292f21be3892b704dddff29327b3564f96099a1c53b00edc23160c71327  libgit2-1.7.1.tar.gz
+sha256  de384e29d7efc9330c6cdb126ebf88342b5025d920dcb7c645defad85195ea7f  libgit2-1.7.2.tar.gz
 sha256  6f3c2cd59b057e366c1acc073b038135c52d77892bb33bd4d931c5369d3f062b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
index 46ccc1e517..498b665808 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.7.1
+LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.7.2
 LIBGIT2_SITE = $(call github,libgit2,libgit2,v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION))
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE = \
 	GPL-2.0 with linking exception, \