diff --git a/ports/freetype/CONTROL b/ports/freetype/CONTROL
index bf65eb28f..c6fcc4243 100644
--- a/ports/freetype/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/freetype/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: freetype
-Version: 2.8-1
+Version: 2.8.1-1
 Build-Depends: zlib, bzip2, libpng
 Description: A library to render fonts.
diff --git a/ports/freetype/portfile.cmake b/ports/freetype/portfile.cmake
index 8bce2577e..026c1573a 100644
--- a/ports/freetype/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/freetype/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-set(FT_VERSION 2.8)
+set(FT_VERSION 2.8.1)
 set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/freetype-${FT_VERSION})
 vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
     URLS "http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-${FT_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
     FILENAME "freetype-${FT_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
-    SHA512 3842c34bf6100a8c9b78258146b2ff35e9bb4c993937d3ef09982c1e2552dfd15f8849ddd8a1e84edf08b5a5fb918b68cf7b1584545c5900e22a00bfa1c89ff5
+    SHA512 ca59e47f0fceeeb9b8032be2671072604d0c79094675df24187829c05e99757d0a48a0f8062d4d688e056f783aa8f6090d732ad116562e94784fccf1339eb823
 )
 vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})