diff --git a/general/sysutils/accountsservice.xml b/general/sysutils/accountsservice.xml
index 474d416466..cfbabbc383 100644
--- a/general/sysutils/accountsservice.xml
+++ b/general/sysutils/accountsservice.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-http
            "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-&accountsservice-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY accountsservice-md5sum        "6dae0b50b48abe61296c8ecf90068c1f">
-  <!ENTITY accountsservice-size          "100 KB">
-  <!ENTITY accountsservice-buildsize     "7.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY accountsservice-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY accountsservice-md5sum        "03dccfe1b306b7ca19743e86d118e64d">
+  <!ENTITY accountsservice-size          "621 KB">
+  <!ENTITY accountsservice-buildsize     "9.8 MB (add 0.5 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY accountsservice-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="accountsservice" xreflabel="AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;">
@@ -100,14 +100,14 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of AccountsService</title>
-<!-- fixed in 22.08.8
-    <para revision="systemd">
-      First, fix an issue in the systemd unit that causes runtime issues:
-      <!-\- causes errors when trying to change the user's icon in g-c-c -\->
+
+    <para>
+      First, fix one test that fails if the <option>en_IE.UTF-8</option> locale
+      is not installed:
     </para>
 
-<screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/PrivateTmp/d' data/accounts-daemon.service.in</userinput></screen>
--->
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^SIMULATED_SYSTEM_LOCALE/s/en_IE.UTF-8/en_HK.iso88591/' tests/test-daemon.py</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>AccountsService</application> by running the following
       commands:
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ meson setup ..            \
 ninja</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
-      This package does not come with a test suite.
+      To test the package, issue <command>ninja test</command>.
     </para>
 
     <para>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 17d85a4d6b..b2f4c34af5 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
      <para>April 6th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[pierre] - Update to accountsservice-23.13.9. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17789">#17789</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to SDL2-2.26.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17894">#17894</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 8f48407929..1e4d8d522c 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY xdg-user-dirs-version        "0.18">
 
 <!-- Chapter 12 -->
-<!ENTITY accountsservice-version      "22.08.8">
+<!ENTITY accountsservice-version      "23.13.9">
 <!ENTITY acpid-version                "2.0.34">
 <!ENTITY at-version                   "3.2.5">
 <!ENTITY autofs-version               "5.1.8">