diff --git a/package/libexif/libexif.hash b/package/libexif/libexif.hash
index 9e95e27f3e..5949bfb36c 100644
--- a/package/libexif/libexif.hash
+++ b/package/libexif/libexif.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# From https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/tag/v0.6.26
+sha256  4a055ed6575e61ca46c3172be3c753cc16c9becd0f99ec71d58dd0e471476c0c  libexif-0.6.26.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  7c9eba99aed3e6594d8c3e85861f1c6aaf450c218621528bc989d3b3e7a26307  libexif-0.6.25.tar.bz2
 sha256  36b6d3fa47916943fd5fec313c584784946047ec1337a78b440e5992cb595f89  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libexif/libexif.mk b/package/libexif/libexif.mk
index 0e50d78fbe..f434f9a922 100644
--- a/package/libexif/libexif.mk
+++ b/package/libexif/libexif.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBEXIF_VERSION = 0.6.25
-LIBEXIF_SOURCE = libexif-$(LIBEXIF_VERSION).tar.bz2
+LIBEXIF_VERSION = 0.6.26
+LIBEXIF_SOURCE = libexif-$(LIBEXIF_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBEXIF_SITE = \
 	https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/download/v$(LIBEXIF_VERSION)
 LIBEXIF_INSTALL_STAGING = YES