diff --git a/expat/CMake.README b/expat/CMake.README
index 13efce81..ce1d5088 100644
--- a/expat/CMake.README
+++ b/expat/CMake.README
@@ -3,25 +3,25 @@
 The cmake based buildsystem for expat works on Windows (cygwin, mingw, Visual
 Studio) and should work on all other platform cmake supports.
 
-Assuming ~/expat-2.2.8 is the source directory of expat, add a subdirectory
+Assuming ~/expat-2.2.9 is the source directory of expat, add a subdirectory
 build and change into that directory:
-~/expat-2.2.8$ mkdir build && cd build
-~/expat-2.2.8/build$
+~/expat-2.2.9$ mkdir build && cd build
+~/expat-2.2.9/build$
 
 From that directory, call cmake first, then call make, make test and
 make install in the usual way:
-~/expat-2.2.8/build$ cmake ..
+~/expat-2.2.9/build$ cmake ..
 -- The C compiler identification is GNU
 -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
 ....
 -- Configuring done
 -- Generating done
--- Build files have been written to: /home/patrick/expat-2.2.8/build
+-- Build files have been written to: /home/patrick/expat-2.2.9/build
 
 If you want to specify the install location for your files, append
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/your/install/path to the cmake call.
 
-~/expat-2.2.8/build$ make && make test && make install
+~/expat-2.2.9/build$ make && make test && make install
 Scanning dependencies of target expat
 [  5%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlparse.c.o
 [ 11%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlrole.c.o
diff --git a/expat/CMakeLists.txt b/expat/CMakeLists.txt
index 1386c6ac..3bdeba44 100644
--- a/expat/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/expat/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.3)
 
 project(expat
     VERSION
-        2.2.8
+        2.2.9
     LANGUAGES
         C
 )
diff --git a/expat/README.md b/expat/README.md
index e5db5972..1cc52b01 100644
--- a/expat/README.md
+++ b/expat/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/tiny-repos/expat.svg)](https://repology.org/metapackage/expat/versions)
 
 
-# Expat, Release 2.2.8
+# Expat, Release 2.2.9
 
 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, started by
 [James Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer)) in 1997.
diff --git a/expat/expat.spec b/expat/expat.spec
index 54b5691f..63074529 100644
--- a/expat/expat.spec
+++ b/expat/expat.spec
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-%define version 2.2.8
+%define version 2.2.9
 %define release 1
 
 Summary: Expat is an XML 1.0 parser written in C.
diff --git a/expat/lib/expat.h b/expat/lib/expat.h
index 6c8eb1fd..48a6e2a3 100644
--- a/expat/lib/expat.h
+++ b/expat/lib/expat.h
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ XML_GetFeatureList(void);
 */
 #define XML_MAJOR_VERSION 2
 #define XML_MINOR_VERSION 2
-#define XML_MICRO_VERSION 8
+#define XML_MICRO_VERSION 9
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
diff --git a/expat/lib/xmlparse.c b/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
index 08a04c65..3aaf35b9 100644
--- a/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
+++ b/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* f2d0ab6d1d4422a08cf1cf3bbdfba96b49dea42fb5ff4615e03a2a25c306e769 (2.2.8+)
+/* f519f27c7c3b79fee55aeb8b1e53b7384b079d9118bf3a62eb3a60986a6742f2 (2.2.9+)
                             __  __            _
                          ___\ \/ /_ __   __ _| |_
                         / _ \\  /| '_ \ / _` | __|
diff --git a/expat/tests/runtests.c b/expat/tests/runtests.c
index 176a5e5f..b7411e92 100644
--- a/expat/tests/runtests.c
+++ b/expat/tests/runtests.c
@@ -7329,7 +7329,7 @@ START_TEST(test_misc_version) {
     fail("Version mismatch");
 
 #if ! defined(XML_UNICODE) || defined(XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T)
-  if (xcstrcmp(version_text, XCS("expat_2.2.8"))) /* needs bump on releases */
+  if (xcstrcmp(version_text, XCS("expat_2.2.9"))) /* needs bump on releases */
     fail("XML_*_VERSION in expat.h out of sync?\n");
 #else
   /* If we have XML_UNICODE defined but not XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T
diff --git a/expat/win32/expat.iss b/expat/win32/expat.iss
index 835bd28f..c93f9c75 100644
--- a/expat/win32/expat.iss
+++ b/expat/win32/expat.iss
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 ; This script was contributed by Tim Peters.
 ; It was designed for Inno Setup 2.0.19 but works with later versions as well.
 
-#define expatVer "2.2.8"
+#define expatVer "2.2.9"
 
 [Setup]
 AppName=Expat