diff --git a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
index ce2954c2c8..065671fab0 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/harfbuzz.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-http
            "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-&harfbuzz-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY harfbuzz-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "49f111f9b52ae3d9b31c1a3631a320bd">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "17 MB">
-  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "176 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-md5sum        "0736300b8ae88d663b15741180aaf305">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-size          "5.4 MB">
+  <!ENTITY harfbuzz-buildsize     "48.3 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 a5e0f059e2..2ee0624d59 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>May 30th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[xry111] - Update to harfbuzz-2.5.0.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12095">#12095</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[dj] - Update mesa-19.0.4-add_xdemos-2.patch (meson).</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 00c84af56a..87ae2c8780 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY giflib-version               "5.1.9">
 <!ENTITY glm-version                  "0.9.9.5">
 <!ENTITY graphite2-version            "1.3.13">
-<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "2.4.0">
+<!ENTITY harfbuzz-version             "2.5.0">
 <!ENTITY ijs-version                  "0.35">
 <!ENTITY jasper-version               "2.0.14">
 <!ENTITY lcms-version                 "1.19">