diff --git a/packages/python2/build.sh b/packages/python2/build.sh
index 655ca186d..d8e20efd9 100644
--- a/packages/python2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python2/build.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses, readline, libffi, openssl, libu
 TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 _MAJOR_VERSION=2.7
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.11
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=3
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.12
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 
 # The flag --with(out)-pymalloc (disable/enable specialized mallocs) is enabled by default and causes m suffix versions of python.