diff --git a/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.hash b/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.hash
index 076b30cfa1..eb2b77bcd8 100644
--- a/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.hash
+++ b/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  909766cd7697153c9e588b0f96defe1868b7bb11d94b8d4f0c83bb4875bc9066  cpp-httplib-0.37.2.tar.gz
+sha256  b52ecaebf0f94086c8b3305650412359d920c5267f6d9ce87f883198783af678  cpp-httplib-0.40.0.tar.gz
 sha256  4b45cbe16d7b71b89ae6127e26e0d90a029198ca5e958ad8e3d0b8bbed364d8b  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.mk b/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.mk
index 3b57e35aea..c860b3d041 100644
--- a/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.mk
+++ b/package/cpp-httplib/cpp-httplib.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CPP_HTTPLIB_VERSION = 0.37.2
+CPP_HTTPLIB_VERSION = 0.40.0
 CPP_HTTPLIB_SITE = $(call github,yhirose,cpp-httplib,v$(CPP_HTTPLIB_VERSION))
 CPP_HTTPLIB_LICENSE = MIT
 CPP_HTTPLIB_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE