diff --git a/packages/leptonica/build.sh b/packages/leptonica/build.sh
index 64de94b68..23ae9ed3d 100644
--- a/packages/leptonica/build.sh
+++ b/packages/leptonica/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.leptonica.com/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for image processing and image analysis"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD 2-Clause"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.78.0
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f8ac4d93cc76b524c2c81d27850bfc342e68b91368aa7a1f7d69e34ce13adbb4
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.79.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=bf9716f91a4844c2682a07ef21eaf68b6f1077af1f63f27c438394fd66218e17
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libjpeg-turbo, libpng, libtiff, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="leptonica-dev"