diff --git a/download.lst b/download.lst
index 9b3b7692c869..065875be0707 100644
--- a/download.lst
+++ b/download.lst
@@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ LIBXML_TARBALL := libxml2-2.11.$(LIBXML_VERSION_MICRO).tar.xz
 # three static lines
 # so that git cherry-pick
 # will not run into conflicts
-LIBXSLT_SHA256SUM := 8247f33e9a872c6ac859aa45018bc4c4d00b97e2feac9eebc10c93ce1f34dd79
-LIBXSLT_VERSION_MICRO := 35
+LIBXSLT_SHA256SUM := 1f32450425819a09acaff2ab7a5a7f8a2ec7956e505d7beeb45e843d0e1ecab1
+LIBXSLT_VERSION_MICRO := 38
 LIBXSLT_TARBALL := libxslt-1.1.$(LIBXSLT_VERSION_MICRO).tar.xz
 # three static lines
 # so that git cherry-pick
diff --git a/external/libxslt/README b/external/libxslt/README
index dd69a9d732c3..2eb71661b903 100644
--- a/external/libxslt/README
+++ b/external/libxslt/README
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Gnome xslt library written in C, from [http://xmlsoft.org/xslt/]
+libxslt is an XSLT processor based on libxml2, from [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/]