diff --git a/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml b/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
index cc6bf89309..58a651b56f 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY librsvg-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/librsvg/&librsvg-minor;/librsvg-&librsvg-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY librsvg-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/librsvg/&librsvg-minor;/librsvg-&librsvg-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY librsvg-md5sum        "22328b7922ab04836959f669ecef1ea7">
-  <!ENTITY librsvg-size          "23 MB">
-  <!ENTITY librsvg-buildsize     "920 MB (28 MB installed), add 213 MB for tests">
+  <!ENTITY librsvg-md5sum        "7a0532a6c8a19fe610045c3b41b65300">
+  <!ENTITY librsvg-size          "27 MB">
+  <!ENTITY librsvg-buildsize     "992 MB (25 MB installed), add 210 MB for tests">
   <!ENTITY librsvg-time          "1.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4), add 1.7 SBU for tests">
 ]>
 
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
     <para role="required">
       <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
-      <xref linkend="docutils"/>,
       <xref linkend="gdk-pixbuf"/>,
       <xref linkend="pango"/>, and
       <xref linkend="rust"/>
@@ -87,9 +86,12 @@
       <xref linkend="vala"/>
     </para>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for tests)</bridgehead>
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
-      <xref linkend="xorg7-font"/>
+      <xref linkend="docutils"/> (for man pages),
+      <xref linkend="xorg7-font"/> (for tests), and
+      <ulink url='https://pypi.org/project/gi-docgen/'>gi-docgen</ulink>
+      (for documentation)
     </para>
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
@@ -100,21 +102,12 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of librsvg</title>
 
-    <para>
-      This package needs <command>gi-docgen</command> to be built.  Set up
-      a Python virtual environment to run it:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">python3 -m venv pyvenv &amp;&amp;
-./pyvenv/bin/pip3 install gi-docgen</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>
       Install <application>librsvg</application> by running the following
       commands:
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>GI_DOCGEN=$PWD/pyvenv/bin/gi-docgen \
-./configure --prefix=/usr    \
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr    \
             --enable-vala    \
             --disable-static \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/librsvg-&librsvg-version; &amp;&amp;
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 755ad35856..f804e779e7 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>April 22nd, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[xry111] - Update to librsvg-2.54.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16456">#16456</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to thunderbird-91.8.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16438">#16438</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index b34fb4de4a..f0c67e52e0 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY libmypaint-version           "1.6.1"> <!-- version 1 only -->
 <!ENTITY libpng-version               "1.6.37">
 <!ENTITY librsvg-minor                "2.54">   <!-- Normally even minors -->
-<!ENTITY librsvg-version              "&librsvg-minor;.0">
+<!ENTITY librsvg-version              "&librsvg-minor;.1">
 <!ENTITY libraw-version               "0.20.2">
 <!ENTITY libspiro-version             "20200505">
 <!ENTITY libtiff-version              "4.3.0">