diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index c5e4105c..876fcc78 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ USE_OSGPLUGIN(<plugin2>)
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <td id="libevent-package">libevent</td>
-        <td id="libevent-version">2.0.20</td>
+        <td id="libevent-version">2.0.21</td>
         <td id="libevent-website"><a href="http://libevent.org/">libevent</a></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
diff --git a/src/libevent.mk b/src/libevent.mk
index ba59918c..0a674c7f 100644
--- a/src/libevent.mk
+++ b/src/libevent.mk
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 PKG             := libevent
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 20bb4a1a296ac93c08dfc32ae19ab874cab67a0c
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 3e6674772eb77de24908c6267c698146420ab699
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := libevent-$($(PKG)_VERSION)-stable
 $(PKG)_FILE     := libevent-$($(PKG)_VERSION)-stable.tar.gz
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://github.com/downloads/$(PKG)/$(PKG)/$($(PKG)_FILE)