diff --git a/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.4.bb b/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.6.bb
similarity index 83%
rename from recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.4.bb
rename to recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.6.bb
index f81cdaa..38a03fb 100644
--- a/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.4.bb
+++ b/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.9.6.bb
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 SUMMARY = "the Git linkable library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libgit2.github.com/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-GCC-exception & MIT & OpenSSL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib & ISC & LGPL-2.1-or-later & CC0-1.0 & BSD-2-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8eacfdc17c8f4d219e131a073973b97d"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8289345c8713c385f45ec0c6c8a0d080"
 
 DEPENDS = "curl openssl zlib libssh2 libgcrypt libpcre2"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git;branch=maint/v1.9;protocol=https \
            file://0001-cmake-mark-system-libraries-are-private-link-librari.patch"
 
-SRCREV = "f7164261c9bc0a7e0ebf767c584e5192810a8b24"
+SRCREV = "26055f5af74ab1cf636d272e8a34315496d3f06f"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"