diff --git a/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.SlackBuild b/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.SlackBuild
index 125897b7fc..e35744f05d 100644
--- a/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=gengetopt
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.22.6}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.23}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.info b/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.info
index bfd6675c69..f760e3d682 100644
--- a/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.info
+++ b/development/gengetopt/gengetopt.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="gengetopt"
-VERSION="2.22.6"
+VERSION="2.23"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt"
-DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/gengetopt-2.22.6.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="29749a48dda69277ab969c510597a14e"
+DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/gengetopt-2.23.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="ea165d618640dbdecb42ae4491337965"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""