diff --git a/packages/libxlsxwriter/build.sh b/packages/libxlsxwriter/build.sh
index 6aae6b559b..aebc134b1d 100644
--- a/packages/libxlsxwriter/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libxlsxwriter/build.sh
@@ -7,5 +7,19 @@ TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.1.4
 TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/archive/refs/tags/RELEASE_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b379eb35fdd9c653ebe72485b9c992f612c7ea66f732784457997d6e782f619b
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
+TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_VERSION_REGEXP="\d+.\d+.\d+"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
+
+termux_step_post_get_source() {
+	# Do not forget to bump revision of reverse dependencies and rebuild them
+	# after SOVERSION is changed.
+	local _SOVERSION=4
+
+	local v=$(sed -En 's/.*LXW_SOVERSION .*"(.*)".*/\1/p' \
+			include/xlsxwriter.h)
+	if [ "${v}" != "${_SOVERSION}" ]; then
+		termux_error_exit "SOVERSION guard check failed."
+	fi
+}