diff --git a/main/libxml2/.checksums b/main/libxml2/.checksums
index f0f958371..fb05d248d 100644
--- a/main/libxml2/.checksums
+++ b/main/libxml2/.checksums
@@ -1 +1 @@
-948141d54edae15daaee80ea216645eb  libxml2-2.11.6.tar.xz
+98b6b964faef7e76f6afe791f9bca126  libxml2-2.12.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/main/libxml2/.pkgfiles b/main/libxml2/.pkgfiles
index 41871bb9d..d05e0457e 100644
--- a/main/libxml2/.pkgfiles
+++ b/main/libxml2/.pkgfiles
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-libxml2-2.11.6-2
+libxml2-2.12.1-1
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/bin/
 -rwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/bin/xml2-config
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/cmake/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/cmake/libxml2/
 -rw-r--r-- root/root    usr/lib/cmake/libxml2/libxml2-config.cmake
-lrwxrwxrwx root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.11.6
-lrwxrwxrwx root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.11.6
--rwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.11.6
+lrwxrwxrwx root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.12.1
+lrwxrwxrwx root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.12.1
+-rwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.12.1
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/pkgconfig/
 -rw-r--r-- root/root    usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
 drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/lib/python3.11/
diff --git a/main/libxml2/spkgbuild b/main/libxml2/spkgbuild
index 7662048d5..7364acb54 100755
--- a/main/libxml2/spkgbuild
+++ b/main/libxml2/spkgbuild
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # depends	: xz zlib
 
 name=libxml2
-version=2.11.6
-release=2
+version=2.12.1
+release=1
 source="https://download.gnome.org/sources/$name/${version%.*}/$name-$version.tar.xz"
 
 build() {