diff --git a/package/libunistring/libunistring.hash b/package/libunistring/libunistring.hash
index e272997189..ba4b642dcb 100644
--- a/package/libunistring/libunistring.hash
+++ b/package/libunistring/libunistring.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	0b3f4dbea5124f56639a701376ed78e5f595e7b720cfbb0cf1f81f375894c77b	libunistring-0.9.5.tar.xz
+sha256	2df42eae46743e3f91201bf5c100041540a7704e8b9abfd57c972b2d544de41b	libunistring-0.9.6.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libunistring/libunistring.mk b/package/libunistring/libunistring.mk
index 0060518adc..bb1641e04f 100644
--- a/package/libunistring/libunistring.mk
+++ b/package/libunistring/libunistring.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBUNISTRING_VERSION = 0.9.5
+LIBUNISTRING_VERSION = 0.9.6
 LIBUNISTRING_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/libunistring
 LIBUNISTRING_SOURCE = libunistring-$(LIBUNISTRING_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBUNISTRING_INSTALL_STAGING = YES