diff --git a/general/prog/rust.xml b/general/prog/rust.xml
index 1878164e65..7a82953d61 100644
--- a/general/prog/rust.xml
+++ b/general/prog/rust.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   <!ENTITY rust-download-http "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-&rust-version;-src.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY rust-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "3b94faca83c0c56f2d04ea3b3a22699b">
+  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "df91d58551c09e6bf5d32e9bf3c0d802">
   <!ENTITY rust-size          "141 MB">
   <!ENTITY rust-buildsize     "8.9 GB (308 MB installed); add 7.2 GB if running the tests">
   <!ENTITY rust-time          "24 SBU (including download time; add 17 SBU for tests, both using parallelism=4)">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 23a17c1639..ebc96a2f4a 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
      <para>March 30th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Update to rustc-1.68.2. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17877">#17877</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to Thunderbird-102.9.1 (Security Update). Fixes
          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17880">#17880</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 25370dda44..25a18e9b8f 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY ruby-patch-version           "1">
 <!ENTITY ruby-version                 "&ruby-minor-version;.&ruby-patch-version;">
 <!ENTITY ruby-gemdir                  "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/&ruby-minor-version;.0">
-<!ENTITY rust-version                 "1.68.1">
+<!ENTITY rust-version                 "1.68.2">
 <!ENTITY scons-version                "4.5.1">
 <!ENTITY slang-version                "2.3.3">
 <!ENTITY subversion-version           "1.14.2">