diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/sdl2_ttf/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/sdl2_ttf/__init__.py
index 9f97ae441c..c869e1fc25 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/sdl2_ttf/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/sdl2_ttf/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 
 class LibSDL2TTF(BootstrapNDKRecipe):
-    version = '2.20.2'
+    version = '2.22.0'
     url = 'https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf/releases/download/release-{version}/SDL2_ttf-{version}.tar.gz'
     dir_name = 'SDL2_ttf'