diff --git a/packages/apt/build.sh b/packages/apt/build.sh
index 57f3c1c89..33a2ba75f 100644
--- a/packages/apt/build.sh
+++ b/packages/apt/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://packages.debian.org/apt
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Front-end for the dpkg package manager"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.3.8
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.3.9
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=485af1430c75e3158b715e4424dbf96d1b5641dc4dccc50f571b2c779a837f2c
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=28597fe803a652f55f618dd7a44bd2fb2712dbd91c258dfa5981cb75356291e3
 # apt-key requires utilities from coreutils, findutils, gpgv, grep, sed.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="coreutils, dpkg, findutils, gpgv, grep, libandroid-glob, libbz2, libc++, libcurl, libgnutls, liblz4, liblzma, sed, termux-licenses, xxhash, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="docbook-xsl"