diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 54113fdadd..14a8540e62 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
      <para>July 12th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to gpgme-1.21.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18268">#18268</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[pierre] - Update to pipewire-0.3.74. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18264">#18264</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index c3097b0822..84f1a678bc 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 <!ENTITY cyrus-sasl-version           "2.1.28">
 <!ENTITY gnupg2-version               "2.4.2">
 <!ENTITY gnutls-version               "3.8.0">
-<!ENTITY gpgme-version                "1.20.0">
+<!ENTITY gpgme-version                "1.21.0">
 <!ENTITY iptables-version             "1.8.9">
 <!ENTITY libcap-version               "2.69">
 <!ENTITY liboauth-version             "1.0.3">
diff --git a/postlfs/security/gpgme.xml b/postlfs/security/gpgme.xml
index 529e2a4196..5801fee620 100644
--- a/postlfs/security/gpgme.xml
+++ b/postlfs/security/gpgme.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY gpgme-download-http "&gnupg-http;/gpgme/gpgme-&gpgme-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY gpgme-download-ftp  "&gnupg-ftp;/gpgme/gpgme-&gpgme-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY gpgme-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY gpgme-md5sum        "526949233610f46655741cafd09e66a7">
-  <!ENTITY gpgme-size          "1.7 MB">
-  <!ENTITY gpgme-buildsize     "189 MB (Add 34 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY gpgme-time          "0.6 SBU (with all bindings, add 0.8 SBU for tests; both with parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY gpgme-md5sum        "3a83288e753a7da53a5626d29e4416fd">
+  <!ENTITY gpgme-size          "1.8 MB">
+  <!ENTITY gpgme-buildsize     "305 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY gpgme-time          "1.7 SBU (with all bindings and tests; with parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="gpgme" xreflabel="GPGME-&gpgme-version;">
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ make</userinput></screen>
         <seg>
           /usr/include/{gpgme++,qgpgme,QGpgME},
           /usr/lib/cmake/{Gpgmepp,QGpgme}.
-          /usr/lib/python{2.7,3.9}/site-packages/gpg, and
+          /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/gpg,
+          /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/gpg-&gpgme-version;-py&python3-majorver;-linux-&lt;arch&gt;.egg, and
           /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpgme
         </seg>
       </seglistitem>