diff --git a/packages/c-ares/build.sh b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
index 07c256598e..ff53958c8c 100644
--- a/packages/c-ares/build.sh
+++ b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://c-ares.haxx.se
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for asynchronous DNS requests (including name resolves)"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="1.28.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="1.28.1"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/archive/cares-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION//./_}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=78b4dddea6ea21d0979bd73989289c5d225cff245baca66b2f6b7cc7f321c79e
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e520d971415e48e607819c2f4b377b0aa69044ef6619160bb41bdba15ab4d545
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_VERSION_REGEXP="\d+.\d+.\d+"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="resolv-conf"