diff --git a/general/prog/git.xml b/general/prog/git.xml
index 18766c8f33..b71b09cfdc 100644
--- a/general/prog/git.xml
+++ b/general/prog/git.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
   <!ENTITY git-download-http "&git-root;/git-&git-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY git-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY git-md5sum        "c7f808ab107b666af45fccb56b9d9676">
+  <!ENTITY git-md5sum        "51bd18a1af964dd3b1c7b0220889ebb6">
 
   <!ENTITY git-size          "6.2 MB">
   <!-- using gcc-8.1 the build and install are much bigger than with gcc-7.3 -->
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index c017e10ee3..aeb462ad15 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
           <para>[timtas] - Update to gegl-0.4.30. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14830">#14830</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[timtas] - Update to git-2.31.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14824">#14824</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 90d572623d..2d1948e374 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY gcc-version                  "10.2.0">
 <!ENTITY gc-version                   "8.0.4">
 <!ENTITY gdb-version                  "10.1">
-<!ENTITY git-version                  "2.31.0">
+<!ENTITY git-version                  "2.31.1">
 <!ENTITY guile-version                "3.0.5">
 <!ENTITY librep-version               "0.92.7">
 <!ENTITY llvm-majmin-version          "11.1">