diff --git a/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash b/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
index f67f2b88fd..54fe8785dc 100644
--- a/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
+++ b/package/leptonica/leptonica.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # locally computed hash
-sha256 29c35426a416bf454413c6fec24c24a0b633e26144a17e98351b6dffaa4a833b  leptonica-1.74.4.tar.gz
+sha256 5e9a33b7ce33ab39fb03cee5a7ec353b044670176303265d7c64d51539616857  leptonica-1.76.0.tar.gz
+sha256 ca0ac11c7c0acad9599d54990942cc11c9f6d9b569f1a360d774a628819c3518  leptonica-license.txt
diff --git a/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk b/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
index 6a958a3564..5e37f939b9 100644
--- a/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
+++ b/package/leptonica/leptonica.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LEPTONICA_VERSION = 1.74.4
+LEPTONICA_VERSION = 1.76.0
 LEPTONICA_SITE = http://www.leptonica.org/source
 LEPTONICA_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause
 LEPTONICA_LICENSE_FILES = leptonica-license.txt