diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/libxml2 b/config/rootfiles/common/libxml2
index 7fa288199..589b5b752 100644
--- a/config/rootfiles/common/libxml2
+++ b/config/rootfiles/common/libxml2
@@ -53,10 +53,9 @@
 #usr/lib/cmake/libxml2/libxml2-config.cmake
 #usr/lib/libxml2.la
 #usr/lib/libxml2.so
-usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
-usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.13.5
+usr/lib/libxml2.so.16
+usr/lib/libxml2.so.16.0.0
 #usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
-#usr/share/aclocal/libxml.m4
 #usr/share/doc/libxml2
 #usr/share/doc/libxml2/xmlcatalog.html
 #usr/share/doc/libxml2/xmllint.html
diff --git a/lfs/libxml2 b/lfs/libxml2
index 5ecea8db7..c1014f56f 100644
--- a/lfs/libxml2
+++ b/lfs/libxml2
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ###############################################################################
 #                                                                             #
 # IPFire.org - A linux based firewall                                         #
-# Copyright (C) 2007-2024  IPFire Team  <info@ipfire.org>                     #
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2025  IPFire Team  <info@ipfire.org>                     #
 #                                                                             #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify        #
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by        #
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 include Config
 
-VER        = 2.13.5
+VER        = 2.14.0
 
 THISAPP    = libxml2-$(VER)
 DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
 
 $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
 
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 46c280630638e2c8009c593bbbcf90ccbfffe9ddcc99987c4d91c2223043759f2b4d6511b31b2357c5250ac3b40d96ef05c17b4d2adc61972665f8a0d899dfe8
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 4e210661b10b846cf80c2ba393209fd2bde1e7f8e4a024eff2e6a90369969e7a7696e2cb77197fe63f63fae959bcaed052d5c5107603f0c64a16d6ceeab6b43c
 
 install : $(TARGET)