diff --git a/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.SlackBuild b/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.SlackBuild
index 3fa78efed0..2fc956dbfd 100644
--- a/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.SlackBuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=libvirt
-VERSION=${VERSION:-7.6.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-7.9.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.info b/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.info
index 991084ad54..90b53f8a4a 100644
--- a/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.info
+++ b/libraries/libvirt/libvirt.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="libvirt"
-VERSION="7.6.0"
+VERSION="7.9.0"
 HOMEPAGE="http://libvirt.org"
-DOWNLOAD="https://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-7.6.0.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="0f03d277ed2782e2a06164af2712585b"
+DOWNLOAD="https://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-7.9.0.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="3dd260582ff402e0856480a16d46ba71"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="yajl"