diff --git a/package/readline/readline.hash b/package/readline/readline.hash
index 63172f1121..b0530a2d72 100644
--- a/package/readline/readline.hash
+++ b/package/readline/readline.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  f8ceb4ee131e3232226a17f51b164afc46cd0b9e6cef344be87c65962cb82b02  readline-8.1.tar.gz
+# Locally calculated after checking pgp signature from
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-8.1.2.tar.gz.sig
+sha256  7589a2381a8419e68654a47623ce7dfcb756815c8fee726b98f90bf668af7bc6  readline-8.1.2.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license file
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/readline/readline.mk b/package/readline/readline.mk
index 06a96b67a8..b1fd181b78 100644
--- a/package/readline/readline.mk
+++ b/package/readline/readline.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-READLINE_VERSION = 8.1
+READLINE_VERSION = 8.1.2
 READLINE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/readline
 READLINE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 READLINE_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses host-autoconf