diff --git a/package/expat/expat.hash b/package/expat/expat.hash
index b0273c73e8..4975d0f864 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.hash
+++ b/package/expat/expat.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  a695629dae047055b37d50a0ff4776d1d45d0a4c842cf4ccee158441f55ff7ee  expat-2.6.4.tar.xz
+sha256  25df13dd2819e85fb27a1ce0431772b7047d72af81ae78dc26b4c6e0805f48d1  expat-2.7.0.tar.xz
 sha256  122f2c27000472a201d337b9b31f7eb2b52d091b02857061a8880371612d9534  COPYING
diff --git a/package/expat/expat.mk b/package/expat/expat.mk
index 24cfa0a9d2..5d40133f08 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.mk
+++ b/package/expat/expat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EXPAT_VERSION = 2.6.4
+EXPAT_VERSION = 2.7.0
 EXPAT_SITE = https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_$(subst .,_,$(EXPAT_VERSION))
 EXPAT_SOURCE = expat-$(EXPAT_VERSION).tar.xz
 EXPAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES