diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/meta b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
index a15765185e..b32a8bd73a 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="libevent"
-PKG_VERSION="2.0.16-stable"
+PKG_VERSION="2.0.19-stable"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"