diff --git a/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash b/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
index 1b8d80fc96..6d49b67428 100644
--- a/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
+++ b/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256 fdfc4df2d001ee0c44ec071186e770046249263c491fcae48df0e1a3ca8f25a0  curl-7.54.1.tar.bz2
+# https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.55.0.tar.xz.asc
+sha256 cdd58522f8607fd4e871df79d73acb3155075e2134641e5adab12a0962df059d  curl-7.55.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
index 684844919e..dd0ccbfa46 100644
--- a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
+++ b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBCURL_VERSION = 7.54.1
-LIBCURL_SOURCE = curl-$(LIBCURL_VERSION).tar.bz2
+LIBCURL_VERSION = 7.55.0
+LIBCURL_SOURCE = curl-$(LIBCURL_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBCURL_SITE = https://curl.haxx.se/download
 LIBCURL_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB),zlib) \