diff --git a/ports/libxslt/CONTROL b/ports/libxslt/CONTROL
index 965079523a..e1de01067c 100644
--- a/ports/libxslt/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libxslt/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libxslt
-Version: 1.1.29
+Version: 1.1.33
 Homepage: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
 Description: Libxslt is a XSLT library implemented in C for XSLT 1.0 and most of EXSLT
 Build-Depends: libxml2
diff --git a/ports/libxslt/portfile.cmake b/ports/libxslt/portfile.cmake
index 2343ba99f1..a688c374b6 100644
--- a/ports/libxslt/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libxslt/portfile.cmake
@@ -7,21 +7,19 @@
 #
 
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/libxslt-1.1.29)
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.29.tar.gz"
-    FILENAME "libxslt-1.1.29.tar.gz"
-    SHA512 a1ce555a74a9dabe65e8f64bb66e27e77760fd76940d88f2d59f58dd63ca73c8ae59f3fcbd8e76c8f92ff992fb0c09328528c20ea38ccac83e63252106bf5f31
+
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO GNOME/libxslt
+    REF  v1.1.33
+    SHA512 2c20b2af3c19952b25b10dca0d95fe227602f7f815db352b04dd061c52c458d745f92c597ce08ac9207ba0fbe0169ea2fb78263d8590743717553f84463fe1d9
+    HEAD_REF master
+	PATCHES
+	0001-Fix-makefile.patch
 )
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
 find_program(NMAKE nmake)
 
-vcpkg_apply_patches(
-    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/
-    PATCHES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/0001-Fix-makefile.patch
-)
-
 set(SCRIPTS_DIR ${SOURCE_PATH}/win32)
 
 set(CONFIGURE_COMMAND_TEMPLATE cscript configure.js
@@ -170,7 +168,7 @@ else()
 endif()
 
 # Handle copyright
-file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt)
-file(RENAME ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt/COPYING ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt/copyright)
+file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/Copyright DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt)
+file(RENAME ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt/Copyright ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxslt/copyright)
 
 vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
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