diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libusbmuxd/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libusbmuxd/package.mk
index bd35979f36..f380ff1dca 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libusbmuxd/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libusbmuxd/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libusbmuxd"
-PKG_VERSION="2.1.0"
-PKG_SHA256="3bda6abb2167e7818bd449aa03c5cfe175c6f965bab3979fda6d58e698df19af"
+PKG_VERSION="2.1.1"
+PKG_SHA256="bcc185615a0f4ba80b617696235a084c64b68a1bf546a1dedd85da6b62b8cfbe"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.libimobiledevice.org"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd/archive/${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
 
 configure_package() {
   # if using a git hash as a package version - set RELEASE_VERSION
-  export RELEASE_VERSION="$(sed -n '1,/RE/s/Version \(.*\)/\1/p' ${PKG_BUILD}/NEWS)-git-${PKG_VERSION:0:7}"
+  if [ -f ${PKG_BUILD}/NEWS ]; then
+    export RELEASE_VERSION="$(sed -n '1,/RE/s/Version \(.*\)/\1/p' ${PKG_BUILD}/NEWS)-git-${PKG_VERSION:0:7}"
+  fi
 }
 
 post_configure_target() {