diff --git a/textproc/libxml2/Makefile.common b/textproc/libxml2/Makefile.common
index b23cd9378381d..bbcb00e1945ce 100644
--- a/textproc/libxml2/Makefile.common
+++ b/textproc/libxml2/Makefile.common
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # used by textproc/libxml2/Makefile
 # used by textproc/py-libxml2/Makefile
 
-DISTNAME=	libxml2-2.9.5
+DISTNAME=	libxml2-2.9.6
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/
 MASTER_SITES+=	http://xmlsoft.org/sources/
diff --git a/textproc/libxml2/distinfo b/textproc/libxml2/distinfo
index ea931b83a771f..67a8ad1768642 100644
--- a/textproc/libxml2/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libxml2/distinfo
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 $NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.117 2017/09/10 20:49:20 wiz Exp $
 
-SHA1 (libxml2-2.9.5.tar.gz) = 6ab515fa4d087a3973e880d46bf6bdad48114d20
-RMD160 (libxml2-2.9.5.tar.gz) = 598fbbd97120b672760c934c12648dfd1065f856
-SHA512 (libxml2-2.9.5.tar.gz) = 197dbd1722e5f90eea43837323352f48d215e198aa6b95685645ef7511e2beba8aadc0dd67e099c945120c5dbe7f8c9da5f376b22f447059e9ffa941c1bfd175
-Size (libxml2-2.9.5.tar.gz) = 5466888 bytes
+SHA1 (libxml2-2.9.6.tar.gz) = 4ab4605fce0f82a004c3b2aeb368efc8f356e020
+RMD160 (libxml2-2.9.6.tar.gz) = 99616c77b5991a00e83abca708338cfa09beef29
+SHA512 (libxml2-2.9.6.tar.gz) = 5ef80f895374bd5dd3bcd5f00c715795f026bf45d998f8f762c0cdb739b8755e01de40cf853d98a3826eacef95c4adebe4777db11020e8d98d0bda921f55a0ed
+Size (libxml2-2.9.6.tar.gz) = 5469624 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-aa) = e687eaa9805b855b0c8a944ec5c597bd34954472
 SHA1 (patch-ab) = d6d6e9a91307da0c7f334b5b9ad432878babd1ac
 SHA1 (patch-ac) = 34afe787f6012b460a85be993048e133907a1621