diff --git a/package/swig/swig.hash b/package/swig/swig.hash
index 98baaa26e7..62e3d20f68 100644
--- a/package/swig/swig.hash
+++ b/package/swig/swig.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  65e13f22a60cecd7279c59882ff8ebe1ffe34078e85c602821a541817a4317f7  swig-2.0.12.tar.gz
+sha256	06dc8816a225667ce1eee545af3caf87e1bbaa379c32838d4cea53152514348d	swig-3.0.7.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/swig/swig.mk b/package/swig/swig.mk
index 6b9b8aebcb..cd816b4822 100644
--- a/package/swig/swig.mk
+++ b/package/swig/swig.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SWIG_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.0
-SWIG_VERSION = $(SWIG_VERSION_MAJOR).12
+SWIG_VERSION_MAJOR = 3.0
+SWIG_VERSION = $(SWIG_VERSION_MAJOR).7
 SWIG_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/swig/swig/swig-$(SWIG_VERSION)
 SWIG_DEPENDENCIES = host-bison
 HOST_SWIG_CONF_OPTS = \
@@ -15,14 +15,15 @@ HOST_SWIG_CONF_OPTS = \
 SWIG_LICENSE = GPLv3+ BSD-2c BSD-3c
 SWIG_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE LICENSE-GPL LICENSE-UNIVERSITIES
 
-# CMake looks first at swig2.0 and then swig. However, when doing the
-# search, it will look into the PATH for swig2.0 first, and then for
-# swig. While the PATH contains first our $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, it also
-# contains /usr/bin and other system directories. Therefore, if there
-# is an installed swig2.0 on the system, it will get the preference
-# over the swig installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, which isn't nice. To
-# prevent this from happening we create a symbolic link swig2.0 ->
-# swig, so that our swig always gets used.
+# CMake looks first at swig3.0, then swig2.0 and then swig. However,
+# when doing the search, it will look into the PATH for swig2.0 first,
+# and then for swig.
+# While the PATH contains first our $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, it also contains
+# /usr/bin and other system directories. Therefore, if there is an
+# installed swig3.0 on the system, it will get the preference over the
+# swig installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, which isn't nice. To prevent
+# this from happening we create a symbolic link swig3.0 -> swig, so that
+# our swig always gets used.
 
 define HOST_SWIG_INSTALL_SYMLINK
 	ln -fs swig $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/swig$(SWIG_VERSION_MAJOR)