diff --git a/package/expat/expat.hash b/package/expat/expat.hash
index 4975d0f864..87bbf86e1a 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.hash
+++ b/package/expat/expat.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  25df13dd2819e85fb27a1ce0431772b7047d72af81ae78dc26b4c6e0805f48d1  expat-2.7.0.tar.xz
-sha256  122f2c27000472a201d337b9b31f7eb2b52d091b02857061a8880371612d9534  COPYING
+sha256  354552544b8f99012e5062f7d570ec77f14b412a3ff5c7d8d0dae62c0d217c30  expat-2.7.1.tar.xz
+sha256  31b15de82aa19a845156169a17a5488bf597e561b2c318d159ed583139b25e87  COPYING
diff --git a/package/expat/expat.mk b/package/expat/expat.mk
index 5d40133f08..51b45b01bb 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.mk
+++ b/package/expat/expat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EXPAT_VERSION = 2.7.0
+EXPAT_VERSION = 2.7.1
 EXPAT_SITE = https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_$(subst .,_,$(EXPAT_VERSION))
 EXPAT_SOURCE = expat-$(EXPAT_VERSION).tar.xz
 EXPAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES