diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk.hash b/package/gawk/gawk.hash
index 852a815d04..3ff0a90030 100644
--- a/package/gawk/gawk.hash
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.2.2.tar.xz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.3.0.tar.xz.sig
 # Primary key fingerprint: D196 7C63 7887 1317 7D86  1ED7 DF59 7815 937E C0D2
-sha256  3c1fce1446b4cbee1cd273bd7ec64bc87d89f61537471cd3e05e33a965a250e9  gawk-5.2.2.tar.xz
+sha256  ca9c16d3d11d0ff8c69d79dc0b47267e1329a69b39b799895604ed447d3ca90b  gawk-5.3.0.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk.mk b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
index 62270cea9c..ff1b9920af 100644
--- a/package/gawk/gawk.mk
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GAWK_VERSION = 5.2.2
+GAWK_VERSION = 5.3.0
 GAWK_SOURCE = gawk-$(GAWK_VERSION).tar.xz
 GAWK_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gawk
 GAWK_DEPENDENCIES = host-gawk