diff --git a/package/libsoup/libsoup.hash b/package/libsoup/libsoup.hash
index 45cee4216d..b42cf2f711 100644
--- a/package/libsoup/libsoup.hash
+++ b/package/libsoup/libsoup.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# From http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.54/libsoup-2.54.1.sha256sum
-sha256	47b42c232034734d66e5f093025843a5d8cc4b2357c011085a2fd04ef02dd633	libsoup-2.54.1.tar.xz
+# From http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.56/libsoup-2.56.0.sha256sum
+sha256	d8216b71de8247bc6f274ec054c08547b2e04369c1f8add713e9350c8ef81fe5	libsoup-2.56.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk b/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
index 5f5156b6e8..f6e92f8a3b 100644
--- a/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
+++ b/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBSOUP_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.54
-LIBSOUP_VERSION = $(LIBSOUP_VERSION_MAJOR).1
+LIBSOUP_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.56
+LIBSOUP_VERSION = $(LIBSOUP_VERSION_MAJOR).0
 LIBSOUP_SOURCE = libsoup-$(LIBSOUP_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBSOUP_SITE = http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/$(LIBSOUP_VERSION_MAJOR)
 LIBSOUP_LICENSE = LGPLv2+