diff --git a/package/assimp/assimp.hash b/package/assimp/assimp.hash
index 50f0b3e6d6..a778b79132 100644
--- a/package/assimp/assimp.hash
+++ b/package/assimp/assimp.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  52ad3a3776ce320c8add531dbcb2d3b93f2e1f10fcff5ac30178b09ba934d084  assimp-5.1.6.tar.gz
+sha256  c9cbbc8589639cd8c13f65e94a90422a70454e8fa150cf899b6038ba86e9ecff  assimp-5.2.1.tar.gz
 sha256  147874443d242b4e2bae97036e26ec9d6b37f706174c1bd5ecfcc8c1294cef51  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/assimp/assimp.mk b/package/assimp/assimp.mk
index 766b2c9b5a..42440f0fa9 100644
--- a/package/assimp/assimp.mk
+++ b/package/assimp/assimp.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ASSIMP_VERSION = 5.1.6
+ASSIMP_VERSION = 5.2.1
 ASSIMP_SITE = $(call github,assimp,assimp,v$(ASSIMP_VERSION))
 ASSIMP_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 ASSIMP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE