diff --git a/package/ninja/ninja.hash b/package/ninja/ninja.hash
index 47ec8229b9..4c666e3065 100644
--- a/package/ninja/ninja.hash
+++ b/package/ninja/ninja.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally generated
-sha256 51581de53cf4705b89eb6b14a85baa73288ad08bff256e7d30d529155813be19  ninja-v1.7.1.tar.gz
+sha256  2edda0a5421ace3cf428309211270772dd35a91af60c96f93f90df6bc41b16d9  ninja-v1.7.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/ninja/ninja.mk b/package/ninja/ninja.mk
index b0655766ab..b27f9cf341 100644
--- a/package/ninja/ninja.mk
+++ b/package/ninja/ninja.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-NINJA_VERSION = v1.7.1
+NINJA_VERSION = v1.7.2
 NINJA_SITE = $(call github,ninja-build,ninja,$(NINJA_VERSION))
 NINJA_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 NINJA_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING