diff --git a/packages/tar/build.sh b/packages/tar/build.sh
index 1167df540..30615ba4d 100644
--- a/packages/tar/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tar/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="GNU tar for manipulating tar archives"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.28
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.29
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 # When cross-compiling configure guesses that d_ino in struct dirent only exists
 # if triplet matches linux*-gnu*, so we force set it explicitly: