diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
index 959887ab0e..086bb41098 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.12/libxml2-2.12.5.sha256sum
-sha256  a972796696afd38073e0f59c283c3a2f5a560b5268b4babc391b286166526b21  libxml2-2.12.5.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.12/libxml2-2.12.6.sha256sum
+sha256  889c593a881a3db5fdd96cc9318c87df34eb648edfc458272ad46fd607353fbb  libxml2-2.12.6.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  7fb0a66f3989f9bd5c7e5438a3de02cd4a7a47dde0aea2f7ea2ba2ff454ee6a4  Copyright
diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
index 6070c07b03..e7ed6fb752 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.12
-LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).5
+LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).6
 LIBXML2_SOURCE = libxml2-$(LIBXML2_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBXML2_SITE = \
 	https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/$(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR)