diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 19504f9a1..9a0560556 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ endif()
 set(GNSSSDR_GNSS_SIM_LOCAL_VERSION "master")
 set(GNSSSDR_GPSTK_LOCAL_VERSION "8.0.0")
 set(GNSSSDR_MATIO_LOCAL_VERSION "1.5.21")
-set(GNSSSDR_PUGIXML_LOCAL_VERSION "1.11.4")
+set(GNSSSDR_PUGIXML_LOCAL_VERSION "1.12")
 set(GNSSSDR_PROTOCOLBUFFERS_LOCAL_VERSION "3.19.4")
 set(GNSSSDR_BENCHMARK_LOCAL_VERSION "1.6.1")
 set(GNSSSDR_MATHJAX_EXTERNAL_VERSION "2.7.7")
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fec5aca90..b804dc215 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -505,9 +505,9 @@ $ sudo ldconfig
 #### Install [Pugixml](https://pugixml.org/ "Pugixml's Homepage"), a light-weight C++ XML processing library:
 
 ```
-$ wget https://github.com/zeux/pugixml/releases/download/v1.11.4/pugixml-1.11.4.tar.gz
-$ tar xvfz pugixml-1.11.4.tar.gz
-$ cd pugixml-1.11.4
+$ wget https://github.com/zeux/pugixml/releases/download/v1.12/pugixml-1.12.tar.gz
+$ tar xvfz pugixml-1.12.tar.gz
+$ cd pugixml-1.12
 $ mkdir build && cd build
 $ cmake ..
 $ make