diff --git a/packages/libunistring/build.sh b/packages/libunistring/build.sh
index 88c2db802..e1da612b7 100644
--- a/packages/libunistring/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libunistring/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library providing functions for manipulating Unicode strings"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.9.7
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.9.8
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9ce081cbee1951b55597b30e7030bda9d7b2f034ef901a135ff3a020be5a41e5
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b792f2bd05d0fa7b339e39e353da7232b2e514e0db2cf5ed95beeff3feb53cf5
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="ac_cv_func_uselocale=no"