diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash b/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
index 5dd8e5c167..ca580b4977 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://www.libarchive.de/downloads/sha256sums
-sha256  5cac725dd4be31c4a10b65d30f29dc957ea29ef3d758df6e46e8ae90a996a19a  libarchive-3.5.3.tar.xz
+sha256  5a411aceb978f43e626f0c2d1812ddd8807b645ed892453acabd532376c148e6  libarchive-3.6.1.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  b2cdf763345de2de34cebf54394df3c61a105c3b71288603c251f2fa638200ba  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
index cf16c27e67..865f605e2f 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBARCHIVE_VERSION = 3.5.3
+LIBARCHIVE_VERSION = 3.6.1
 LIBARCHIVE_SOURCE = libarchive-$(LIBARCHIVE_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBARCHIVE_SITE = https://www.libarchive.de/downloads
 LIBARCHIVE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES