diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/build b/packages/devel/libevent/build
index 470083e229..dc69301208 100755
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/build
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/build
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --datadir=/usr/share \
             --enable-shared \
             --disable-static \
+            --enable-openssl
 
 make
 
diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/meta b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
index b32a8bd73a..8e151870be 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="libevent"
-PKG_VERSION="2.0.19-stable"
+PKG_VERSION="2.0.20-stable"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-PKG_SITE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/"
-PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/levent/libevent/libevent-2.0/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_SITE="http://libevent.org/"
+PKG_URL="https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="openssl zlib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain openssl zlib"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libevent: A library for asynchronous event notification"