diff --git a/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.SlackBuild b/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.SlackBuild
index ccbad98544..a771170443 100644
--- a/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.SlackBuild
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=universal-ctags
-VERSION=${VERSION:-15504fe}
-GITVERSION=${GITVERSION:-15504fe2d0c84b6dbcb0b8a5c594424dd383185e}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-e2a1691}
+GITVERSION=${GITVERSION:-e2a169135e18b20c9429d0eff096f1d1476c1b89}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.info b/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.info
index 0f56302d90..68c8f568ed 100644
--- a/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.info
+++ b/development/universal-ctags/universal-ctags.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="universal-ctags"
-VERSION="15504fe"
+VERSION="e2a1691"
 HOMEPAGE="https://ctags.io/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/archive/15504fe2d0c84b6dbcb0b8a5c594424dd383185e.zip"
-MD5SUM="930da8d63eaa246cfc9557187eb980da"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/archive/e2a169135e18b20c9429d0eff096f1d1476c1b89.zip"
+MD5SUM="342cc50746fceebdfe90bc45dd14728d"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="%README%"