diff --git a/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
index 7a8861a313..efb9301183 100644
--- a/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-string(REGEX MATCH "^([0-9]*[.][0-9]*)" MAJOR_MINOR "${VERSION}")
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/${MAJOR_MINOR}/libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
-         "https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/${MAJOR_MINOR}/libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
-    FILENAME "libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
-    SHA512 bba28edf40c60ac186ff1b704d9f4f41f73c1be3126cfb345005283b32bb5c9a596b8def64be8ad8e295e1e169bed91d120d5105cbbb6cecc4675d10b897dfe6
-)
-
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive(
-    SOURCE_PATH
-    ARCHIVE "${ARCHIVE}"
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO libxmlplusplus/libxmlplusplus
+    REF ${VERSION}
+    SHA512 ad164deebcf874b54fcf2923c672fe95ab7e397bc17bf6f7079899e8732eb4665e78b6477671cf481bbcb301db146e83c25b8c159da086dd2dd2cf32bba12ffa
+    HEAD_REF master
 )
 
 vcpkg_configure_meson(
diff --git a/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
index 26732d771b..d08acc780d 100644
--- a/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "libxmlpp",
-  "version": "5.4.0",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "version": "5.6.1",
   "description": "A C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library.",
   "homepage": "https://libxmlplusplus.github.io/libxmlplusplus/",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 341b75af40..0b54d89ca4 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5981,8 +5981,8 @@
       "port-version": 4
     },
     "libxmlpp": {
-      "baseline": "5.4.0",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "baseline": "5.6.1",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "libxmp": {
       "baseline": "4.6.0",
diff --git a/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json b/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
index 14e2bb92da..ced719716e 100644
--- a/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
+++ b/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "4eb0af33eb187604f448fb6b90c835daa53ce86e",
+      "version": "5.6.1",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "240ef9a1b77f7301926538286cfd9c785c6bc687",
       "version": "5.4.0",