diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 449439da96..65c4de9f30 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
    <listitem>
       <para>January 29th, 2021</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to dvisvgm-2.11.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14547">#14547</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Update to IO-Socket-SSL-2.069 (perl module). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14552">#14552</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 6e84b41075..dd04f6ac07 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -1092,6 +1092,6 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY asymptote-version            "2.68">
 <!ENTITY biber-version                "2.16">
 <!ENTITY biblatex-version             "3.16">
-<!ENTITY dvisvgm-version              "2.11">
+<!ENTITY dvisvgm-version              "2.11.1">
 <!ENTITY xindy-version                "2.5.1">
 
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/dvisvgm.xml b/pst/typesetting/dvisvgm.xml
index 787ef29b52..f508d8d6a9 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/dvisvgm.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/dvisvgm.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY dvisvgm-download-http "https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/releases/download/&dvisvgm-version;/dvisvgm-&dvisvgm-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY dvisvgm-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-md5sum        "742d16960485468a8c744dee3762aa74">
+  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-md5sum        "2eb037bd599c7f9af9fc3d176de97b86">
   <!ENTITY dvisvgm-size          "3.0 MB">
-  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-buildsize     "330 MB (49 MB installed, add 954 MB for the tests)">
-  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-time          "0.7 SBU (add 0.5 SBU for the tests, both using parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-buildsize     "334 MB (49 MB installed, add 959 MB for the tests)">
+  <!ENTITY dvisvgm-time          "0.8 SBU (add 0.6 SBU for the tests, both using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="dvisvgm" xreflabel="dvisvgm-&dvisvgm-version;">
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@
       commands:
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure                                    \
+<screen><userinput>autoreconf -fiv                               &amp;&amp;
+./configure                                    \
  --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/${TEXARCH}     \
  --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man \
  --with-kpathsea=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;            &amp;&amp;
@@ -158,6 +159,15 @@ make</userinput></screen>
       Without this, the program will not link correctly,
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      <command>autoreconf -fiv</command>: The versions of
+      <application>autoconf</application> and <application>automake</application>
+      used when this package was created are older than the current versions in
+      LFS. That causes 'make' to fail when it reaches the 'tests' subdirectory
+      unless autoreconf is forced to install missing (i.e. newer) auxiliary
+      files.
+    </para>
+
     <!-- EDITORS: the doc target to rebuild the manpage (make man) is not
       recognised unless invoked from the doc directory (unlike make pdf which
       can be invoked from top-level but needs dblatex), and I see no utility