diff --git a/package/git/git.hash b/package/git/git.hash
index 91d723ecd1..d73778ad85 100644
--- a/package/git/git.hash
+++ b/package/git/git.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # From: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  e748bafd424cfe80b212cbc6f1bbccc3a47d4862fb1eb7988877750478568040  git-2.41.0.tar.xz
+sha256  3278210e9fd2994b8484dd7e3ddd9ea8b940ef52170cdb606daa94d887c93b0d  git-2.42.0.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  5b2198d1645f767585e8a88ac0499b04472164c0d2da22e75ecf97ef443ab32e  COPYING
 sha256  1922f45d2c49e390032c9c0ba6d7cac904087f7cec51af30c2b2ad022ce0e76a  LGPL-2.1
diff --git a/package/git/git.mk b/package/git/git.mk
index 99646b10dc..853ec256a0 100644
--- a/package/git/git.mk
+++ b/package/git/git.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GIT_VERSION = 2.41.0
+GIT_VERSION = 2.42.0
 GIT_SOURCE = git-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.xz
 GIT_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/scm/git
 GIT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1+