diff --git a/packages/libtorrent/build.sh b/packages/libtorrent/build.sh
index eb38bba92e..9099f955d0 100644
--- a/packages/libtorrent/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libtorrent/build.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.13.8
 TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=0f6c2e7ffd3a1723ab47fdac785ec40f85c0a5b5a42c1d002272205b988be722
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
+TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_TAG_TYPE="newest-tag"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, openssl, zlib"
 
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="