diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
index cad19f930f5d..78c1ddc6a230 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.11/libxml2-2.11.5.sha256sum
-sha256  3727b078c360ec69fa869de14bd6f75d7ee8d36987b071e6928d4720a28df3a6  libxml2-2.11.5.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.11/libxml2-2.11.6.sha256sum
+sha256  c90eee7506764abbe07bb616b82da452529609815aefef423d66ef080eb0c300  libxml2-2.11.6.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  c5c63674f8a83c4d2e385d96d1c670a03cb871ba2927755467017317878574bd  Copyright
diff --git a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
index fb7767297ba3..c93a4aacc535 100644
--- a/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
+++ b/package/libxml2/libxml2.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.11
-LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).5
+LIBXML2_VERSION = $(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR).6
 LIBXML2_SOURCE = libxml2-$(LIBXML2_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBXML2_SITE = \
 	https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/$(LIBXML2_VERSION_MAJOR)