diff --git a/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD b/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
index 86e583844..94cf48f2f 100644
--- a/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/libvirt/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #  - removed qemu makedepend
 
 pkgname=libvirt
-pkgver=5.4.0
+pkgver=5.5.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="API for controlling virtualization engines (openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc)"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ url="https://libvirt.org/"
 license=('LGPL')
 makedepends=('lvm2' 'linux-api-headers' 'dnsmasq' 'lxc' 'libiscsi' 'open-iscsi'
              'perl-xml-xpath' 'libxslt' 'parted' 'python')
-depends=('e2fsprogs' 'gnutls' 'iptables' 'libxml2' 'parted' 'polkit' 'avahi'
+depends=('e2fsprogs' 'gnutls' 'iptables' 'libxml2' 'parted' 'polkit'
          'yajl' 'libpciaccess' 'udev' 'dbus' 'libxau' 'libxdmcp' 'libpcap'
          'libcap-ng' 'curl' 'libsasl' 'libgcrypt' 'libgpg-error' 'openssl'
          'libxcb' 'gcc-libs' 'iproute2' 'libnl' 'libx11' 'gettext'
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ source=("https://libvirt.org/sources/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz"{,.asc}
         'libvirtd.conf.d'
         'libvirtd-guests.conf.d'
         'libvirt.sysusers.d')
-sha512sums=('03fa932d041d147cab79eab200bb33f8db72579be72ec7cbff3305f4a8d574835a80f1b99936eddf67f83d21cc5567f45c86e555209de6cd702f43f91197cfd0'
+sha512sums=('47923aaca605fb43a53238ac535abc1f88f73435336b8f3e88cb01df277ed205d99c586991e523aa32b50c832a0a7c949ab5f84dc78eb8d18a4951cfc791448d'
             'SKIP'
             'fc0e16e045a2c84d168d42c97d9e14ca32ba0d86025135967f4367cf3fa663882eefb6923ebf04676ae763f4f459e5156d7221b36b47c835f9e531c6b6e0cd9d'
             'ef221bae994ad0a15ab5186b7469132896156d82bfdc3ef3456447d5cf1af347401ef33e8665d5b2f76451f5457aee7ea01064d7b9223d6691c90c4456763258'