diff --git a/general/genlib/libxml2.xml b/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
index 1941bbd5ed..2b1e601c16 100644
--- a/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
   <!ENTITY libxml2-download-http "https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.10/libxml2-&libxml2-version;.tar.xz">
 <!--  <!ENTITY libxml2-download-http "http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-&libxml2-version;.tar.xz">-->
   <!ENTITY libxml2-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY libxml2-md5sum        "54fdcf2404eb5c1ca59ffc82b2edff78">
-  <!ENTITY libxml2-size          "2.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY libxml2-buildsize     "96 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY libxml2-md5sum        "5ffd0cd047056d5699b3363c635582bc">
+  <!ENTITY libxml2-size          "2.5 MB">
+  <!ENTITY libxml2-buildsize     "94 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY libxml2-time          "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
   <!ENTITY testsuite-version     "20130923">
 ]>
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of libxml2</title>
-
+<!--  No longer needed with 2.10.2.
     <para>
       First, fix a problem recognizing Python-3.10:
     </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>autoreconf -fiv</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
     <para>
       Install <application>libxml2</application> by running the following
       commands:
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 60347be5d7..3e172c3ef0 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>September 2nd, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libxml2-2.10.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16950">#16950</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libXau-1.0.10. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16958">#16958</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 84e7fd9ad8..23fdf39f01 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
 <!-- the libxml2-version is also used for the python2 module,
 which is built separately after libxml2.so has been installed,
 to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
-<!ENTITY libxml2-version              "2.10.0">
+<!ENTITY libxml2-version              "2.10.2">
 <!ENTITY libxslt-version              "1.1.36">
 <!ENTITY libwacom-version             "2.4.0">
 <!ENTITY libwpe-version               "1.12.2">