diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
index 20e6929265..c02a149a68 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  9e1d6a880d59026b675456fbb1593c724c68d73c34c0d214d6eb848e9bbd8ae4  libgit2-1.8.0.tar.gz
-sha256  08041a7e9c4d0e5e84f9711c824a0bd0366ee782ec29c6d7275fdab73e2ca115  COPYING
+sha256  8c1eaf0cf07cba0e9021920bfba9502140220786ed5d8a8ec6c7ad9174522f8e  libgit2-1.8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  e3712465634e97cfd850822a4eb5ac7d2f8a10f753189366d5a2060046f28288  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
index 3364841e8f..e817a5916a 100644
--- a/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
+++ b/package/libgit2/libgit2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.8.0
+LIBGIT2_VERSION = 1.8.1
 LIBGIT2_SITE = $(call github,libgit2,libgit2,v$(LIBGIT2_VERSION))
 LIBGIT2_LICENSE = \
 	GPL-2.0 with linking exception, \
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ LIBGIT2_CONF_OPTS = \
 	-DUSE_GSSAPI=OFF \
 	-DUSE_ICONV=ON \
 	-DREGEX_BACKEND=regcomp \
-	-DUSE_HTTP_PARSER=system \
+	-DUSE_HTTP_PARSER=http-parser \
 	-DUSE_NTLMCLIENT=OFF \
 	-DUSE_XDIFF=builtin \
 	-DUSE_THREADS=$(if $(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),ON,OFF)