diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/libedit b/config/rootfiles/common/libedit
index 255594cb6..a8ebc9738 100644
--- a/config/rootfiles/common/libedit
+++ b/config/rootfiles/common/libedit
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #usr/lib/libedit.la
 #usr/lib/libedit.so
 usr/lib/libedit.so.0
-usr/lib/libedit.so.0.0.76
+usr/lib/libedit.so.0.0.78
 #usr/lib/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
 #usr/share/man/man3/editline.3
 #usr/share/man/man3/el_deletestr.3
diff --git a/lfs/libedit b/lfs/libedit
index 9105b63b7..6998aa8e1 100644
--- a/lfs/libedit
+++ b/lfs/libedit
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 include Config
 
-VER        = 20251016-3.1
+VER        = 20260512-3.1
 
 THISAPP    = libedit-$(VER)
 DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.gz
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
 
 $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
 
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 2ea177f349c2a976e11fed07dcfef78d640f5e44f0524930a9872563dff66b29775c89569491579c4d59f1480711d48c78232e0f5f7538509df28794b6607f4e
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 5368e7e004424bd03c5900bb535705dd8b3a03e4ad056ed28ab58e62e4bf70f81a696dc041d299563ee8dae91b0361f7fd5d0942be692d78fea33dfc18c08eef
 
 install : $(TARGET)