diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e293e2bb..739eeefd 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ install:
   - make yaml-cpp
   - cd ../../
   # Build libgit2
-  - wget https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v0.22.2.tar.gz
-  - tar -xf v0.22.2.tar.gz
-  - mv libgit2-0.22.2 libgit2
+  - wget https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v0.23.0.tar.gz
+  - tar -xf v0.23.0.tar.gz
+  - mv libgit2-0.23.0 libgit2
   - mkdir libgit2/build && cd libgit2/build
   - cmake ..
   - make git2
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7ccc9160..c0fcd793 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ LOOT uses [CMake](http://cmake.org) to generate build files, and requires the fo
 * [Chromium Embedded Framework](https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef) branch 2272
 * [Google Test](https://code.google.com/p/googletest/) v1.7: Required to build the LOOT API's tests, but not the API itself or the LOOT application.
 * [Libespm](http://github.com/WrinklyNinja/libespm)
-* [Libgit2](http://libgit2.github.com/) v0.22.3
+* [Libgit2](http://libgit2.github.com/) v0.23.0
 * [Libloadorder](http://github.com/WrinklyNinja/libloadorder)
 * [yaml-cpp](http://github.com/WrinklyNinja/yaml-cpp): Use the `patched-for-loot` branch.