diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index 48f8e005b..c93213fd8 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://python.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear programs"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="PythonPL"
 _MAJOR_VERSION=3.8
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.3
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.5
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=dfab5ec723c218082fe3d5d7ae17ecbdebffa9a1aea4d64aa3a2ecdd2e795864
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e3003ed57db17e617acb382b0cade29a248c6026b1bd8aad1f976e9af66a83b0
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_RECOMMENDS="clang, make, pkg-config"
 TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="python-tkinter"