diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 0a37a90c94d..2c456dea0f2 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3219,7 +3219,7 @@ libKDcrawQt6.so.5 libkdcraw-qt6-24.02.2_1
 libhackrf.so.0 libhackrf-2017.02.1_1
 libtecla.so.1 libtecla-1.6.3_1
 libtecla_r.so.1 libtecla-1.6.3_1
-libzim.so.8 libzim-8.2.1_1
+libzim.so.9 libzim-9.2.3_1
 libkiwix.so.14 kiwix-lib-14.0.0_1
 libaria2.so.0 libaria2-1.35.0_3
 librpm.so.9 librpm-4.15.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libzim/template b/srcpkgs/libzim/template
index f916c99fc26..a40ff23b83f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libzim/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libzim/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'libzim'
 pkgname=libzim
-version=8.2.1
+version=9.2.3
 revision=1
-_testsuite_version=0.4
+_testsuite_version=0.6.0
 build_style=meson
 build_wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version}"
-configure_args="-Dtest_data_dir=${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/zim-testing-suite-${_testsuite_version}/data"
+configure_args="-Dtest_data_dir=${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/zim-testing-suite-${_testsuite_version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="liblzma-devel $(vopt_if zlib zlib-devel)
  $(vopt_if xapian "xapian-core-devel icu-devel")
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openzim/libzim/main/ChangeLog"
 distfiles="https://github.com/openzim/libzim/archive/refs/tags/${version}.tar.gz
- https://github.com/openzim/zim-testing-suite/archive/refs/tags/v${_testsuite_version}.tar.gz"
-checksum="b8296644b04b02c04d2ff1458fed829df39b54e8fd1bcd23c10440e160819f13
- 7a4f0c773e65be6fe49d3b2159bd9c0f051e8319932ebd3474db0f77f7ea9b27"
-make_check_pre="env SKIP_BIG_MEMORY_TEST=1"
+ https://github.com/openzim/zim-testing-suite/releases/download/${_testsuite_version}/zim-testing-suite-${_testsuite_version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="7c6e7fcaf5bc82447edb12c6c573779af6d77b3b79227da57586e81c4e13f1bf
+ 5aa91349a2791c862217b4d2ddd002f08589146ec047f10d5fa1f5fd85d0ea92"
 patch_args="-Np1 -d ${build_wrksrc}"
 
 build_options="xapian zlib zstd"