diff --git a/package/grep/grep.hash b/package/grep/grep.hash
index a0028a4e2f..fdc1505e36 100644
--- a/package/grep/grep.hash
+++ b/package/grep/grep.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.11.tar.xz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.12.tar.xz.sig
 # using key 155D3FC500C834486D1EEA677FD9FCCB000BEEEE
-sha256  1db2aedde89d0dea42b16d9528f894c8d15dae4e190b59aecc78f5a951276eab  grep-3.11.tar.xz
+sha256  2649b27c0e90e632eadcd757be06c6e9a4f48d941de51e7c0f83ff76408a07b9  grep-3.12.tar.xz
 sha256  3972dc9744f6499f0f9b2dbf76696f2ae7ad8af9b23dde66d6af86c9dfb36986  COPYING
diff --git a/package/grep/grep.mk b/package/grep/grep.mk
index 61900bb957..9dff26bafa 100644
--- a/package/grep/grep.mk
+++ b/package/grep/grep.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GREP_VERSION = 3.11
+GREP_VERSION = 3.12
 GREP_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/grep
 GREP_SOURCE = grep-$(GREP_VERSION).tar.xz
 GREP_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+