diff --git a/bazel/deps.yaml b/bazel/deps.yaml
index 77b0d221d81f..8ee52c5d5710 100644
--- a/bazel/deps.yaml
+++ b/bazel/deps.yaml
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ nghttp2:
   project_name: "Nghttp2"
   project_desc: "Implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C"
   project_url: "https://nghttp2.org"
-  release_date: "2025-06-17"
+  release_date: "2026-04-19"
   use_category:
   - controlplane
   - dataplane_core
diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index a31f81c3bd7c..319bf4a53b83 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         urls = ["https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
     ),
     nghttp2 = dict(
-        version = "1.66.0",
-        sha256 = "e178687730c207f3a659730096df192b52d3752786c068b8e5ee7aeb8edae05a",
+        version = "1.69.0",
+        sha256 = "c866b7477cbb7512ab6863a685027adbb1bb8da8fc3bab7429ed43d3281d5aa9",
         strip_prefix = "nghttp2-{version}",
         urls = ["https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/download/v{version}/nghttp2-{version}.tar.gz"],
     ),