diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index bbaf61e58e..44d15a310a 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
      <listitem>
       <para>December 5th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[timtas] - Update to dovecot-2.3.9. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12873">#12873</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[timtas] - Update to thunderbird-68.3.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12865">#12865</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 2efee44f55..0b11ab8966 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!-- Chapter 21 -->
 <!ENTITY dovecot-major                "2">
 <!ENTITY dovecot-minor                "3">
-<!ENTITY dovecot-micro                "8">
+<!ENTITY dovecot-micro                "9">
 <!ENTITY dovecot-nano                 "0">
 <!--<!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;.&dovecot-nano;">-->
 <!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;">
diff --git a/server/mail/dovecot.xml b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
index 86cb01f7a0..5ec15e3437 100644
--- a/server/mail/dovecot.xml
+++ b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   <!ENTITY dovecot-download-http
   "https://www.dovecot.org/releases/&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;/dovecot-&dovecot-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY dovecot-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum        "363a999284d97cc257ca9ce4b190bed8">
+  <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum        "c6604ee990a10458dc2c674f257588df">
   <!ENTITY dovecot-size          "6.9 MB">
-  <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize     "180 MB">
+  <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize     "181 MB">
   <!ENTITY dovecot-time          "3.9 SBU">
 ]>