diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
index c0a11893cf..7f2385e7c1 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libxml2"
-PKG_VERSION="2.9.8"
-PKG_SHA256="0b74e51595654f958148759cfef0993114ddccccbb6f31aee018f3558e8e2732"
+PKG_VERSION="2.9.9"
+PKG_SHA256="94fb70890143e3c6549f265cee93ec064c80a84c42ad0f23e85ee1fd6540a871"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="http://xmlsoft.org"
 PKG_URL="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"