diff --git a/ports/c-ares/CONTROL b/ports/c-ares/CONTROL
index 204fd6668f..525bd89859 100644
--- a/ports/c-ares/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/c-ares/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: c-ares
-Version: cares-1_15_0
+Version: 2019-5-2
 Description: A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
 Build-Depends:
diff --git a/ports/c-ares/portfile.cmake b/ports/c-ares/portfile.cmake
index 999c3553ec..094b52ff4a 100644
--- a/ports/c-ares/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/c-ares/portfile.cmake
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ include(vcpkg_common_functions)
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO c-ares/c-ares
-    REF cares-1_15_0
-    SHA512 3c925e0b3a25f3b656a145966ca763f77ae4ccefd87f2d9ae01cae786eeca0ce8397af4ab21da64f516b4603850638f969056184c310372d22aeb5cbfd2704c8
+    REF 9f1fdbf5dd633f81352fac0d6bc0d0c4d45be459
+    SHA512 2bb3696e839e37c6f2be4b979ae6d0eab2914d6f0ca043f688e3bb3071d2348cb64424049f019c16bc05d472dd61d5071e865edd229dce023a50f556a1961766
     HEAD_REF master
 )