diff --git a/packages/network/libssh/package.mk b/packages/network/libssh/package.mk
index 9b69285dd7..8fe9e05562 100644
--- a/packages/network/libssh/package.mk
+++ b/packages/network/libssh/package.mk
@@ -16,20 +16,13 @@
 #  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ################################################################################
 
-
-# TODO: update to libssh-0.6.3 fails in xbmc with
-#   ld.gold: error: libsmbclient.a: multiple definition of 'string_free'
-#   ld.gold: libssh.a: previous definition here
-
 PKG_NAME="libssh"
-PKG_VERSION="0.5.5"
+PKG_VERSION="0.6.3"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OpenSource"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.libssh.org/"
-# PKG_URL="http://www.libssh.org/files/0.5/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-# PKG_URL="https://red.libssh.org/attachments/download/51/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz" # actually down
-PKG_URL="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libssh/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz/bb308196756c7255c0969583d917136b/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_URL="https://red.libssh.org/attachments/download/87/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib libressl"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="network"