diff --git a/package/tig/tig.hash b/package/tig/tig.hash
index b5aebb9c5d..4329723f9e 100644
--- a/package/tig/tig.hash
+++ b/package/tig/tig.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # From:
-# https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.10/tig-2.5.10.tar.gz.sha256
-sha256  f655cc1366fc10058a2bd505bb88ca78e653ff7526c1b81774c44b9d841210e3  tig-2.5.10.tar.gz
+# https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.12/tig-2.5.12.tar.gz.sha256
+sha256  5dda8a098810bb499096e17fc9f69c0a5915a23f46be27209fc8195d7a792108  tig-2.5.12.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/tig/tig.mk b/package/tig/tig.mk
index d3aa6df62a..58084bc758 100644
--- a/package/tig/tig.mk
+++ b/package/tig/tig.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TIG_VERSION = 2.5.10
+TIG_VERSION = 2.5.12
 TIG_SITE = https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-$(TIG_VERSION)
 TIG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 TIG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
-TIG_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses
+TIG_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf ncurses
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV),y)
 TIG_DEPENDENCIES += libiconv