diff --git a/package/cutelyst/Config.in b/package/cutelyst/Config.in
index 3e28cff95d..8eff938d51 100644
--- a/package/cutelyst/Config.in
+++ b/package/cutelyst/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CUTELYST
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # C++11
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_3
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_GUI
 	help
 	  A C++ Web Framework built on top of Qt, using
diff --git a/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.hash b/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.hash
index edc83f3886..87506ab90c 100644
--- a/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.hash
+++ b/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  d088e6dbbb9a1ef03b4481d44746a2b086724842f5ee85abe8095e2eb6fe0da4    cutelyst-2.5.2.tar.gz
+sha256  f87c2f04b148a50f5df13aa5d75b45bf20e56be2e2cd6e17c2aef5231db4b467    cutelyst-2.7.0.tar.gz
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551    COPYING
diff --git a/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.mk b/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.mk
index 8e117e3286..42a317e765 100644
--- a/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.mk
+++ b/package/cutelyst/cutelyst.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CUTELYST_VERSION = 2.5.2
+CUTELYST_VERSION = 2.7.0
 CUTELYST_SITE = https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/archive/v$(CUTELYST_VERSION)
 CUTELYST_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 CUTELYST_SUPPORTS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD = NO