diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 2450ab29680..c8c033bf492 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ libunwind-arm.so.8 libunwind-1.1_4
 libunwind-mips.so.8 libunwind-1.1_4
 libunwind-aarch64.so.8 libunwind-1.2rc1_1
 libmicrohttpd.so.12 libmicrohttpd-0.9.48_1
-libgit2.so.25 libgit2-0.25.1_1
+libgit2.so.26 libgit2-0.26.0_1
 libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0 libgit2-glib-0.23.4_1
 libagg.so.2 agg-2.5_1
 libzzip-0.so.13 zziplib-0.13.62_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgit2/patches/libressl.patch b/srcpkgs/libgit2/patches/libressl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ba36f6839a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libgit2/patches/libressl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- src/openssl_stream.h.orig	2016-12-16 00:19:49.000000000 +0000
-+++ src/openssl_stream.h	2016-12-17 09:01:20.333682535 +0000
-@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
- 
- 
- 
--# if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L
-+# if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L || defined(LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER)
- 
- GIT_INLINE(BIO_METHOD*) BIO_meth_new(int type, const char *name)
- {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
index 479e2954135..e1de18fd245 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'libgit2'
 pkgname=libgit2
-version=0.25.1
-revision=4
+version=0.26.0
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 hostmakedepends="python git pkg-config"
 makedepends="zlib-devel libressl-devel http-parser-devel libssh2-devel"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="http://libgit2.github.com/"
 license="GPL-2 with Linking Exception"
 distfiles="https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=7ae8e699ff7ff9a1fa702249140ee31ea6fd556bf7968e84e38165870667bcb1
+checksum=4ac70a2bbdf7a304ad2a9fb2c53ad3c8694be0dbec4f1fce0f3cd0cda14fb3b9
 configure_args="-DTHREADSAFE=ON"
 
 case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in