diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 33e67e9cf..488cf20c1 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -8988,7 +8988,7 @@ fi
 if test "$has_system_sodium" = "no"
 then :
 
-sodium_version="1.0.20"
+sodium_version="1.0.22"
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: extracting sodium library" >&5
 printf "%s\n" "extracting sodium library" >&6; }
 cur_dir=`pwd`
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 904637bf2..5194252ae 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ AS_IF([test "x$PRIVATELIBDIR" != "x"], [rm -f "$PRIVATELIBDIR/"libsodium*])],[ha
 
 AS_IF([test "$has_system_sodium" = "no"],[
 dnl REMEMBER TO CHANGE WITH A NEW SODIUM RELEASE!
-sodium_version="1.0.20"
+sodium_version="1.0.22"
 AC_MSG_RESULT(extracting sodium library)
 cur_dir=`pwd`
 cd extras
diff --git a/extras/libsodium.tar.gz b/extras/libsodium.tar.gz
index 2f6efbdb4..7fe08df16 100644
Binary files a/extras/libsodium.tar.gz and b/extras/libsodium.tar.gz differ