diff --git a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
index 6a36f362e9..2386cc2891 100644
--- a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
+++ b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/docutils/json
-md5  0afa992a6e93db892107c3f087d0d9df  docutils-0.19.tar.gz
-sha256  33995a6753c30b7f577febfc2c50411fec6aac7f7ffeb7c4cfe5991072dcf9e6  docutils-0.19.tar.gz
+md5  93bcfe0065cf1d0b6a0bcabeca7a2335  docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
+sha256  f08a4e276c3a1583a86dce3e34aba3fe04d02bba2dd51ed16106244e8a923e3b  docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256  16b78bd9994588326a871ac39f64480969ebeb57ecd46a31874744560e72390a  COPYING.txt
+sha256  a0d7ee761e8d757c0b904518514f98233fd94f2398da3703130d15142ca47a77  COPYING.txt
diff --git a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
index d06521d10f..2b496f0d46 100644
--- a/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
+++ b/package/python-docutils/python-docutils.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION = 0.19
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION = 0.20.1
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SOURCE = docutils-$(PYTHON_DOCUTILS_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6b/5c/330ea8d383eb2ce973df34d1239b3b21e91cd8c865d21ff82902d952f91f
+PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1f/53/a5da4f2c5739cf66290fac1431ee52aff6851c7c8ffd8264f13affd7bcdd
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_LICENSE = Public Domain, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, Python-2.0, GPL-3.0+ (emacs mode)
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.txt
 PYTHON_DOCUTILS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools