diff --git a/readline/.md5sum b/readline/.md5sum
index cdf3b851..baff6f87 100644
--- a/readline/.md5sum
+++ b/readline/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 553cf04fdeec54dca12062864c3ffba3  inputrc
-20ad06e656f2d36846987f116d620147  readline-6.2.1.patch.gz
+14c964c720fd8f09b37068b8a26e0c69  readline-6.2.3.patch.gz
 67948acb2ca081f23359d0256e9a271c  readline-6.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/readline/Pkgfile b/readline/Pkgfile
index 385f5fef..8c60a563 100644
--- a/readline/Pkgfile
+++ b/readline/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses
 
 name=readline
-version=6.2.1
+version=6.2.3
 release=1
 source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-${version::3}.tar.gz \
         $name-$version.patch.gz inputrc)
diff --git a/readline/readline-6.2.1.patch.gz b/readline/readline-6.2.1.patch.gz
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index a2994478..00000000
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diff --git a/readline/readline-6.2.3.patch.gz b/readline/readline-6.2.3.patch.gz
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index 00000000..6364313c
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