diff --git a/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.hash b/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.hash
index 97416c18c6..7c5a532660 100644
--- a/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.hash
+++ b/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  f7bf5f6a4a21542a6ce5440dc0d81f3a26d029ee689e1fade62925b1e6667bd9  de50cffd41e6.tar.gz
+sha256  c24e3b48f5ffa5afb3256d23700506fad72117ac2834147c2e46ee94c3cb12b5  sdl_ttf-70b2940cc75e92aab02a67d2f827caf2836a2c74.tar.gz
 sha256  b609721d3d4ac67facaf86f068c8b311b6c5f6cef89b6d84268aa38b7867ab7b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.mk b/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.mk
index 9ac12ef5b7..254000443c 100644
--- a/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.mk
+++ b/package/sdl_ttf/sdl_ttf.mk
@@ -6,16 +6,8 @@
 
 # There is unlikely to be a new SDL_ttf release for the foreseeable future:
 # https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5344#c1
-#
-# The unreleased version from HEAD as of 2020-11-09 has several bugfixes
-# and DPI scaling support:
-# https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf/rev/7dbd7cd826d6
-#
-# DPI scaling is used for rendering on HiDPI displays and displays
-# with non-square pixels.
-SDL_TTF_VERSION = de50cffd41e6
-SDL_TTF_SOURCE = $(SDL_TTF_VERSION).tar.gz
-SDL_TTF_SITE = https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf/archive
+SDL_TTF_VERSION = 70b2940cc75e92aab02a67d2f827caf2836a2c74
+SDL_TTF_SITE = $(call github,libsdl-org,SDL_ttf,$(SDL_TTF_VERSION))
 SDL_TTF_LICENSE = Zlib
 SDL_TTF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING