diff --git a/groups/010.host_deps.group b/groups/010.host_deps.group
index fb6a679..3b5d464 100644
--- a/groups/010.host_deps.group
+++ b/groups/010.host_deps.group
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ HOST_DEPS_PREFIX="${PREFIX}";
 : ${PKG_DBUS_GLIB_HOST_URL:=https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-${PKG_DBUS_GLIB_HOST_VERSION}.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_DBUS_GLIB_HOST_CFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA:="-I${PREFIX}/include/dbus-1.0 -I${PREFIX}/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I${PREFIX}/include/glib-2.0 -I${PREFIX}/lib/glib-2.0/include"};
 : ${PKG_DBUS_GLIB_HOST_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--enable-bash-completion=no"};
-: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_SHA256SUM:=17b43c2716d521369f82fc2dc70f359860e90fa440bea65b3b85f0b246ea81f2};
-: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_VERSION:=2.2.6};
-: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_URL:=http://download.openpkg.org/components/cache/expat/expat-${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_VERSION}.tar.bz2};
+: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_SHA256SUM:=caa34f99b6e3bcea8502507eb6549a0a84510b244a748dfb287271b2d47467a9};
+: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_VERSION:=2.3.0};
+: ${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_URL:=http://download.openpkg.org/components/cache/expat/expat-${PKG_EXPAT_HOST_VERSION}.tar.xz};
 : ${PKG_FILE_HOST_SHA256SUM:=f05d286a76d9556243d0cb05814929c2ecf3a5ba07963f8f70bfaaa70517fad1};
 : ${PKG_FILE_HOST_VERSION:=5.39};
 : ${PKG_FILE_HOST_URL:=http://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-${PKG_FILE_HOST_VERSION}.tar.gz};