diff --git a/package/libplist/libplist.hash b/package/libplist/libplist.hash
index 63c2515062..8b36daceab 100644
--- a/package/libplist/libplist.hash
+++ b/package/libplist/libplist.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 3a7e9694c2d9a85174ba1fa92417cfabaea7f6d19631e544948dc7e17e82f602  libplist-2.0.0.tar.bz2
+sha256 4b33f9af3f9208d54a3c3e1a8c149932513f451c98d1dd696fe42c06e30b7f03  libplist-2.1.0.tar.gz
+sha256 7619c753cac95d4740220223bde48a032606fcaccde5e546f9bc444c81ab356d  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libplist/libplist.mk b/package/libplist/libplist.mk
index 09fc8168e4..d07fb5dd2e 100644
--- a/package/libplist/libplist.mk
+++ b/package/libplist/libplist.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBPLIST_VERSION = 2.0.0
-LIBPLIST_SOURCE = libplist-$(LIBPLIST_VERSION).tar.bz2
-LIBPLIST_SITE = http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads
+LIBPLIST_VERSION = 2.1.0
+LIBPLIST_SITE = $(call github,libimobiledevice,libplist,$(LIBPLIST_VERSION))
 LIBPLIST_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBPLIST_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
 LIBPLIST_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+# github tarball does not include configure
+LIBPLIST_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 # Disable building Python bindings, because it requires host-cython, which
 # is not packaged in Buildroot at all.