diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.7.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.8.1.bb
similarity index 68%
rename from meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.7.2.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.8.1.bb
index d1629c0c0b..618a4ea6ea 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgit2/libgit2_1.8.1.bb
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 SUMMARY = "the Git linkable library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libgit2.github.com/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-GCC-exception & MIT & OpenSSL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib & ISC & LGPL-2.1-or-later & CC0-1.0 & BSD-2-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5bdf47bbc9a39dc6ce076d59e322dc17"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8eacfdc17c8f4d219e131a073973b97d"
 
 DEPENDS = "curl openssl zlib libssh2 libgcrypt libpcre2"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git;branch=maint/v1.7;protocol=https"
-SRCREV = "a418d9d4ab87bae16b87d8f37143a4687ae0e4b2"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git;branch=main;protocol=https"
+SRCREV = "36f7e21ad757a3dacc58cf7944329da6bc1d6e96"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"