diff --git a/package/libglib2/Config.in b/package/libglib2/Config.in
index 84ee816a89..80c7d6749b 100644
--- a/package/libglib2/Config.in
+++ b/package/libglib2/Config.in
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFFI
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE_UCP
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBMOUNT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # gettext
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/libglib2/libglib2.hash b/package/libglib2/libglib2.hash
index 35728e2e33..3bc4021477 100644
--- a/package/libglib2/libglib2.hash
+++ b/package/libglib2/libglib2.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.48/glib-2.48.2.sha256sum
-sha256  f25e751589cb1a58826eac24fbd4186cda4518af772806b666a3f91f66e6d3f4  glib-2.48.2.tar.xz
+# https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.50/glib-2.50.0.sha256sum
+sha256  830b551fa626bda06e12729205b3c5bb0d82b924a8cf64d948945878f01b7d70  glib-2.50.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libglib2/libglib2.mk b/package/libglib2/libglib2.mk
index 6b1a387946..5bc6ed5f6d 100644
--- a/package/libglib2/libglib2.mk
+++ b/package/libglib2/libglib2.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGLIB2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.48
-LIBGLIB2_VERSION = $(LIBGLIB2_VERSION_MAJOR).2
+LIBGLIB2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.50
+LIBGLIB2_VERSION = $(LIBGLIB2_VERSION_MAJOR).0
 LIBGLIB2_SOURCE = glib-$(LIBGLIB2_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBGLIB2_SITE = http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/$(LIBGLIB2_VERSION_MAJOR)
 LIBGLIB2_LICENSE = LGPLv2+
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ HOST_LIBGLIB2_CONF_OPTS = \
 
 LIBGLIB2_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-pkgconf host-libglib2 host-gettext \
-	libffi pcre zlib $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT),gettext)
+	libffi pcre util-linux zlib $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT),gettext)
 
 HOST_LIBGLIB2_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-gettext host-libffi host-pcre host-pkgconf host-zlib