diff --git a/INSTALL.fa.md b/INSTALL.fa.md
index 6f77201df..0831639cc 100644
--- a/INSTALL.fa.md
+++ b/INSTALL.fa.md
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ cd ..
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore.git toxcore
 cd toxcore
-git checkout v0.2.1
+git checkout v0.2.3
 autoreconf -if
 ./configure
 make -j$(nproc)
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index aab7cdb51..f2cff4403 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ Provided that you have all required dependencies installed, you can simply run:
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore.git toxcore
 cd toxcore
-git checkout v0.2.2
+git checkout v0.2.3
 cmake .
 make -j$(nproc)
 sudo make install
diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index af8dea075..c43bf9fdd 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ readonly INSTALL_DIR=libs
 readonly BASE_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR}/${INSTALL_DIR}"
 
 # versions of libs to checkout
-readonly TOXCORE_VERSION="v0.2.2"
-readonly SQLCIPHER_VERSION="v3.4.0"
+readonly TOXCORE_VERSION="v0.2.3"
+readonly SQLCIPHER_VERSION="v3.4.2"
 
 # directory names of cloned repositories
 readonly TOXCORE_DIR="libtoxcore-$TOXCORE_VERSION"
diff --git a/osx/qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh b/osx/qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh
index 132b48985..ec758f883 100755
--- a/osx/qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh
+++ b/osx/qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ install() {
         git pull
     else
         fcho "Cloning Toxcore git ... "
-        git clone --branch v0.2.2 --depth=1 https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore "$TOXCORE_DIR"
+        git clone --branch v0.2.3 --depth=1 https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore "$TOXCORE_DIR"
     fi
     # qTox
     if [[ $TRAVIS = true ]]
diff --git a/windows/cross-compile/build.sh b/windows/cross-compile/build.sh
index 9e1c31290..53afe163f 100644
--- a/windows/cross-compile/build.sh
+++ b/windows/cross-compile/build.sh
@@ -884,8 +884,8 @@ fi
 # Toxcore
 
 TOXCORE_PREFIX_DIR="$DEP_DIR/libtoxcore"
-TOXCORE_VERSION=0.2.2
-TOXCORE_HASH=a3b25d8bd92b9526b47ba1f60a2893d2154a80bb7ae690f44b5a2dea41c76ea1
+TOXCORE_VERSION=0.2.3
+TOXCORE_HASH=22c52f286c46d3f802edb6978bcf2a53f8301363e2b745784613427a33ba3a34
 TOXCORE_FILENAME="c-toxcore-$TOXCORE_VERSION.tar.gz"
 if [ ! -f "$TOXCORE_PREFIX_DIR/done" ]
 then