diff --git a/general/genlib/xapian.xml b/general/genlib/xapian.xml
index f883cb8ef8..34f8cf1608 100644
--- a/general/genlib/xapian.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/xapian.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   <!ENTITY xapian-download-http
            "https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/&xapian-version;/xapian-core-&xapian-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY xapian-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY xapian-md5sum        "636a7ebaf1d7bd11e87f59c83cbdaaf7">
+  <!ENTITY xapian-md5sum        "ffa6ff96cc4df935ef0c9e3c991a813f">
   <!ENTITY xapian-size          "2.9 MB">
-  <!ENTITY xapian-buildsize     "146 MB (add 154 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY xapian-buildsize     "147 MB (add 154 MB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY xapian-time          "0.2 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 14 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 9fe813c111..b2e6b092a7 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>July 5th, 2022</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xapian-core-1.4.20. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16735">#16735</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>July 4th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index e5f0fd5ac3..7956108141 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY wayland-protocols-version    "1.25">
 <!ENTITY wpebackend-fdo-version       "1.12.0">
 <!ENTITY wv-version                   "1.2.9">
-<!ENTITY xapian-version               "1.4.19">
+<!ENTITY xapian-version               "1.4.20">
 <!ENTITY yaml-version                 "0.2.5">
 
 <!-- Chapter 10 -->