diff --git a/system/base/libxml2/actions.py b/system/base/libxml2/actions.py
index 65dd382c..2601f05c 100755
--- a/system/base/libxml2/actions.py
+++ b/system/base/libxml2/actions.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ def setup():
     # fix sandbox violations when attempt to read "/missing.xml"
     pisitools.dosed("testapi.c", "\/missing.xml", "missing.xml")
     
+    autotools.autoreconf("-fiv")
+    
     shelltools.system("mkdir build-py{2,3}")
     shelltools.cd("build-py2")
     shelltools.sym("../configure", "configure")
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ def setup():
                      --without-python"
     else: options += " --with-python=/usr/bin/python \
                        --libdir=/usr/lib"
-
+    
     autotools.configure(options)
     pisitools.dosed("libtool", " -shared ", " -Wl,-O1,--as-needed -shared ")
     
@@ -63,11 +65,11 @@ def build():
     shelltools.cd("../build-py3")
     autotools.make()
 
-#def check():
-    #shelltools.cd("build-py2")
-    #autotools.make("check")
-    #shelltools.cd("../build-py3")
-    #autotools.make("check")
+def check():
+    shelltools.cd("build-py2")
+    autotools.make("check")
+    shelltools.cd("../build-py3")
+    autotools.make("check")
 
 def install():
     shelltools.cd("build-py2")
diff --git a/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.11-disable-fuzz-tests.patch b/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.11-disable-fuzz-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f6fd4ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.11-disable-fuzz-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/252
+
+From 5d6403682a3463f29a1f7c27aa54ecb5e3971547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
+Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 17:40:22 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Disable fuzz tests
+
+Not all of the fuzz files are included with the dist tarball,
+so disabling them for now to get the release in with most tests
+given the security bug.
+--- a/Makefile.am
++++ b/Makefile.am
+@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
+ 
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ 
+-SUBDIRS = include . doc example fuzz xstc $(PYTHON_SUBDIR)
++SUBDIRS = include . doc example xstc $(PYTHON_SUBDIR)
+ 
+-DIST_SUBDIRS = include . doc example fuzz python xstc
++DIST_SUBDIRS = include . doc example python xstc
+ 
+ AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/include -I$(srcdir)/include
+ 
+@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ runtests: runtest$(EXEEXT) testrecurse$(EXEEXT) testapi$(EXEEXT) \
+ 	    $(CHECKER) ./runxmlconf$(EXEEXT)
+ 	@(if [ "$(PYTHON_SUBDIR)" != "" ] ; then cd python ; \
+ 	    $(MAKE) tests ; fi)
+-	@cd fuzz; $(MAKE) tests
+ 
+ check: all runtests
+ 
+-- 
diff --git a/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.8-out-of-tree-test.patch b/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.8-out-of-tree-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e269c33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/base/libxml2/files/libxml2-2.9.8-out-of-tree-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/merge_requests/14
+
+From 54878c018af979b20ca1bfbf12599973484cae5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 05:44:03 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] fix reader5.py test when building out of tree
+
+When building out of tree, the relative path this test uses doesn't
+work.  Resolve the path relative to the test script itself instead.
+
+Url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/565576
+--- a/python/tests/reader5.py
++++ b/python/tests/reader5.py
+@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
+ # this extract the Dragon bibliography entries from the XML specification
+ #
+ import libxml2
++import os
+ import sys
+ 
+ # Memory debug specific
+@@ -14,7 +15,8 @@ Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
+ <emph>Compilers:  Principles, Techniques, and Tools</emph>.
+ Reading:  Addison-Wesley, 1986, rpt. corr. 1988.</bibl>"""
+ 
+-f = open('../../test/valid/REC-xml-19980210.xml', 'rb')
++basedir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
++f = open(os.path.join(basedir, '../../test/valid/REC-xml-19980210.xml'), 'rb')
+ input = libxml2.inputBuffer(f)
+ reader = input.newTextReader("REC")
+ res=""
+-- 
diff --git a/system/base/libxml2/pspec.xml b/system/base/libxml2/pspec.xml
index e1673857..3fa548e4 100755
--- a/system/base/libxml2/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/base/libxml2/pspec.xml
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@
             <Dependency versionFrom="8.0.1">readline-devel</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
         <Patches>
-<!--             <Patch level="1">fedora/libxml2-2.9.12-fix-formatting-regression.patch</Patch> -->
-            <Patch level="1">fedora/libxml2-2.9.12-fix-lxml-corrupted-tree.patch </Patch>
+            <Patch level="1">fedora/libxml2-2.9.12-fix-lxml-corrupted-tree.patch</Patch>
+            <Patch level="1">fedora/libxml2-2.9.12-fix-formatting-regression.patch</Patch>
             <Patch level="1">fedora/libxml2-2.9.8-python3-unicode-errors.patch</Patch>
+             <Patch level="1">libxml2-2.9.11-disable-fuzz-tests.patch</Patch>
         </Patches>
     </Source>
 
@@ -91,11 +92,11 @@
 
     <History>
         <Update release="11">
-            <Date>2021-06-04</Date>
+            <Date>2021-06-03</Date>
             <Version>2.9.12</Version>
-            <Comment>Upgrade to 2.9.12</Comment>
-            <Name>İdris Kalp</Name>
-            <Email>idriskalp@gmail.com</Email>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
         </Update>
         <Update release="10">
             <Date>2021-03-13</Date>