diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 4e52655eb8b..b698106f781 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ librlog.so.5 librlog-1.4_1
 libtinyxml.so.0 tinyxml-2.6.2_1
 libbluray.so.1 libbluray-0.2.3_1
 libnfs.so.8 libnfs-1.9.7_1
-libzip.so.4 libzip-1.0_1
+libzip.so.5 libzip-1.2_1
 libapp.so.0 libapp-20110513_1
 libluajit-5.1.so.2 LuaJIT-2.0.0_1
 libOSMesa.so.8 libOSMesa-9.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libzip/template b/srcpkgs/libzip/template
index 0fc9aec9d4e..137813dfe79 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libzip/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libzip/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libzip'
 pkgname=libzip
-version=1.1.3
+version=1.2.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="perl"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.nih.at/libzip"
 distfiles="${homepage}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=1faa5a524dd4a12c43b6344e618edce1bf8050dfdb9d0f73f3cc826929a002b0
+checksum=6cf9840e427db96ebf3936665430bab204c9ebbd0120c326459077ed9c907d9f
 
 post_install() {
 	ln -sfr ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/libzip/include/zipconf.h ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/zipconf.h