diff --git a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
index 78a8d00d2b..e1184e32fd 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!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        "1be4ab01c1829bcf49a5a1cc896b351a">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "74dd89b7f394aabb0e318e36d169b77e">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "17 MB">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "136 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-time          "0.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 348cd6db04..c96800acfd 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>October 23rd, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to harfbuzz-5.3.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17211">#17211</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-22.2.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17213">#17213</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 0e4887c3bc..e910ae2cf1 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ 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             "5.3.0">
+<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "5.3.1">
 <!ENTITY jasper-version               "3.0.6">
 <!ENTITY lcms-version                 "1.19">
 <!ENTITY lcms2-version                "2.13.1">