diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index a5ea8352d72..a22a13c9dbd 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3993,7 +3993,7 @@ libmagpie-clutter-0.so.0 magpie-0.9.3_1
 libmagpie-cogl-0.so.0 magpie-0.9.3_1
 libmagpie-cogl-pango-0.so.0 magpie-0.9.3_1
 libslirp.so.0 libslirp-4.2.0_1
-libqpdf.so.29 libqpdf-11.0.0_1
+libqpdf.so.30 libqpdf-12.1.0_1
 libstk-4.6.1.so libstk-4.6.1_1
 libc++utilities.so.5 cpp-utilities-5.2.0_1
 libtagparser.so.12 tagparser-12.0.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/template b/srcpkgs/qpdf/template
index 4b11e07ef1f..60b29f9e651 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qpdf/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'qpdf'
 pkgname=qpdf
-version=11.6.4
+version=12.1.0
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 hostmakedepends="perl pkg-config"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ license="Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qpdf/qpdf/stable/manual/release-notes.rst"
 distfiles="https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=8da100130dff5dfc0bd637752a39687cf4a4f591ca3bfaf17fd4ceff0c0529f2
+checksum=f1c2d3a26e67ce1b84b2a5165aeb2a1de79e51eeb782b46fcddff87069d7ea1e
 
 if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 	configure_args="-DLL_FMT=%lld -DRANDOM_DEVICE=/dev/urandom"