diff --git a/main/libevent/APKBUILD b/main/libevent/APKBUILD
index 5260417bdff..45e48c5ff37 100644
--- a/main/libevent/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libevent/APKBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=libevent
-pkgver=2.0.16
+pkgver=2.0.17
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="An event notification library"
 url="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/"
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ package() {
 	make -j1 DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
 	rm "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.la
 }
-md5sums="899efcffccdb3d5111419df76e7dc8df  libevent-2.0.16-stable.tar.gz"
+md5sums="dad64aaaaff16b5fbec25160c06fee9a  libevent-2.0.17-stable.tar.gz"