diff --git a/package/rene/libxml2/libxml2.desc b/package/rene/libxml2/libxml2.desc
index ef93b1dc0..1816111e9 100644
--- a/package/rene/libxml2/libxml2.desc
+++ b/package/rene/libxml2/libxml2.desc
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 
 [L] LGPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.6.16
+[V] 2.6.17
 [P] X -?---5---9 128.000
 
-[D] 1699420073 libxml2-2.6.16.tar.gz ftp://xmlsoft.org/
+[D] 2429132886 libxml2-2.6.17.tar.gz ftp://xmlsoft.org/