diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
index 38df6cae55..7dd472bcfb 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ansible
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.9.6}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.9.7}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.info b/system/ansible/ansible.info
index 8f0f967071..6d614d5134 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.info
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="ansible"
-VERSION="2.9.6"
+VERSION="2.9.7"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.ansible.com"
-DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.6.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="a871463bcd809363a5857f4690525a93"
+DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.7.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="755151f9df2dd627df0eda06c624452a"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="cryptography python3-PyYAML Jinja2"