diff --git a/mingw-w64-highfive/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-highfive/PKGBUILD
index 00075d6041..b3e400d6d1 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-highfive/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-highfive/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 _realname=highfive
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=2.8.0
+pkgver=2.9.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Modern header-only C++11 friendly interface for libhdf5 (mingw-w64)'
 arch=('any')
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ optdepends=(
   "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-eigen3"
 )
 source=("https://github.com/BlueBrain/HighFive/archive/v${pkgver}/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('cd2502cae61bfb00e32dd18c9dc75289e09ad1db5c2a46d3b0eefd32e0df983b')
+sha256sums=('6301def8ceb9f4d7a595988612db288b448a3c0546f6c83417dab38c64994d7e')
 
 build() {
   mkdir -p "${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}" && cd "${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}"