diff --git a/packages/libxml2/build.sh b/packages/libxml2/build.sh
index 22908d0e2..bcdd2f634 100644
--- a/packages/libxml2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libxml2/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.xmlsoft.org
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for parsing XML documents"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.9.7
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f63c5e7d30362ed28b38bfa1ac6313f9a80230720b7fb6c80575eeab3ff5900c
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.9.8
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=0b74e51595654f958148759cfef0993114ddccccbb6f31aee018f3558e8e2732
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-python"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="share/gtk-doc"