diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
index 392398eea6..a85cde05db 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libxml2"
-PKG_VERSION="2.9.4"
-PKG_SHA256="ffb911191e509b966deb55de705387f14156e1a56b21824357cdf0053233633c"
+PKG_VERSION="2.9.8"
+PKG_SHA256="0b74e51595654f958148759cfef0993114ddccccbb6f31aee018f3558e8e2732"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="http://xmlsoft.org"