diff --git a/packages/security/gnutls/build b/packages/security/gnutls/build
index 1478586852..8189b6997b 100755
--- a/packages/security/gnutls/build
+++ b/packages/security/gnutls/build
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ cd lib
             --with-included-libtasn1 \
             --with-lzo \
             --with-libz-prefix="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr" \
+            --with-libgcrypt \
             --with-libgcrypt-prefix="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr" \
             --disable-nls \
             --with-gnu-ld
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ cd ../libextra
             --enable-shared \
             --with-included-libtasn1 \
             --with-lzo \
+            --with-libgcrypt \
             --with-libgcrypt-prefix="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr" \
             --with-gnu-ld
 
diff --git a/packages/security/gnutls/meta b/packages/security/gnutls/meta
index 3dc3f8e862..1ebf48a0e7 100644
--- a/packages/security/gnutls/meta
+++ b/packages/security/gnutls/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="gnutls"
-PKG_VERSION="2.10.5"
+PKG_VERSION="2.12.1"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"