diff --git a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
index b858fbf1db..1e32276608 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-http
            "https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/download/&harfbuzz-version;/harfbuzz-&harfbuzz-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "43e94912c25bfaaea2701f89bab74ced">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "355a719e8d0ef25d3c5347c93e5d36fe">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "18 MB">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "150 MB (with tests)">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "1.0 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "155 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "1.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="harfbuzz" xreflabel="HarfBuzz-&harfbuzz-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index da0301e757..27a2791448 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>September 21st, 2023</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to harfbuzz-8.2.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18605">#18605</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Update to vte-0.74.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18594">#18594</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 5619b35782..08f37af177 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY giflib-version               "5.2.1">
 <!ENTITY glm-version                  "0.9.9.8">
 <!ENTITY graphite2-version            "1.3.14">
-<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "8.2.0">
+<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "8.2.1">
 <!ENTITY jasper-version               "4.0.0">
 <!ENTITY lcms-version                 "1.19">
 <!ENTITY lcms2-version                "2.14">