diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
index 25d6b7b8ec..2c7d7ad266 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libxml2"
-PKG_VERSION="2.12.7"
-PKG_SHA256="f86f918e2884675cc0778c644fbc15e3ccbf06fb7fcf24eacd286976c99a6266"
+PKG_VERSION="2.13.0"
+PKG_SHA256="94b458dd08b36111552bfd436922abb41608ae7e4ecb7ebd015aaae39b48cbb5"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="http://xmlsoft.org"
 PKG_URL="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/${PKG_NAME}/-/archive/v${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}-v${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host ninja:host Python3:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The libxml package contains an XML library, which allows you to manipulate XML files."
+PKG_TOOLCHAIN="cmake"
 
 PKG_CMAKE_OPTS_ALL="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
                     -DLIBXML2_WITH_LZMA=OFF \
diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2/patches/libxml2-0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-Python-installation.patch b/packages/textproc/libxml2/patches/libxml2-0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-Python-installation.patch
index d85e577cb6..03a9b32add 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2/patches/libxml2-0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-Python-installation.patch
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2/patches/libxml2-0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-Python-installation.patch
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ index e68f3684..c0661a0e 100644
 --- a/CMakeLists.txt
 +++ b/CMakeLists.txt
 @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ if(LIBXML2_WITH_PYTHON)
- 	check_include_files(unistd.h HAVE_UNISTD_H)
- 	check_symbol_exists(F_GETFL fcntl.h HAVE_F_GETFL)
- 	find_package(Python COMPONENTS Interpreter Development REQUIRED)
--        #set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR ${Python_SITEARCH} CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
--        set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/python"
--	    CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
-+	set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR ${Python_SITEARCH} CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
+     check_include_files(unistd.h HAVE_UNISTD_H)
+     check_symbol_exists(F_GETFL fcntl.h HAVE_F_GETFL)
+     find_package(Python COMPONENTS Interpreter Development REQUIRED)
+-    #set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR ${Python_SITEARCH} CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
+-    set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/python"
+-        CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
++    set(LIBXML2_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR ${Python_SITEARCH} CACHE PATH "Python bindings install directory")
  endif()
  
- foreach(VARIABLE IN ITEMS WITH_AUTOMATA WITH_C14N WITH_CATALOG WITH_DEBUG WITH_EXPR WITH_FTP WITH_HTML WITH_HTTP WITH_ICONV WITH_ICU WITH_ISO8859X WITH_LEGACY WITH_LZMA WITH_MEM_DEBUG WITH_MODULES WITH_OUTPUT WITH_PATTERN WITH_PUSH WITH_READER WITH_REGEXPS WITH_SAX1 WITH_SCHEMAS WITH_SCHEMATRON WITH_THREADS WITH_THREAD_ALLOC WITH_TREE WITH_UNICODE WITH_VALID WITH_WRITER WITH_XINCLUDE WITH_XPATH WITH_XPTR WITH_XPTR_LOCS WITH_ZLIB)
+ foreach(VARIABLE IN ITEMS WITH_AUTOMATA WITH_C14N WITH_CATALOG WITH_DEBUG WITH_EXPR WITH_HTML WITH_HTTP WITH_ICONV WITH_ICU WITH_ISO8859X WITH_LEGACY WITH_LZMA WITH_MODULES WITH_OUTPUT WITH_PATTERN WITH_PUSH WITH_READER WITH_REGEXPS WITH_SAX1 WITH_SCHEMAS WITH_SCHEMATRON WITH_THREADS WITH_THREAD_ALLOC WITH_TREE WITH_UNICODE WITH_VALID WITH_WRITER WITH_XINCLUDE WITH_XPATH WITH_XPTR WITH_ZLIB)
 -- 
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