diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
index 367ade3afe..5522f5fe45 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  ad73f845965cfd528e70f654e428073121a3fa0dc23caac81a1b1300277d4dba  libgit2-1.1.0.tar.gz
-sha256  afc8bde99ba630012107c25d3c42dde628ec5f0cd3f428131f7e3a0f7d58ff42  COPYING
+sha256  701a5086a968a46f25e631941b99fc23e4755ca2c56f59371ce1d94b9a0cc643  libgit2-1.2.0.tar.gz
+sha256  8b7e4f54f8bf210c8fe010a49571a1ee57463ef020cc43f051d4d3fbb74942af  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
index 668fa758f8..4c715302d1 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.1.0
-LIBGIT2_SITE = https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/download/v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION)
+LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.2.0
+LIBGIT2_SITE = $(call github,libgit2,libgit2,v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION))
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 with linking exception, MIT (sha1), wildmatch license (wildmatch)
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 LIBGIT2_CPE_ID_VENDOR = libgit2_project