diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d8e111d67..2b0687a85 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 * mkvextract: h.265/HEVC extraction: the code for skipping extraction of
   prefix SEI NALUs in the first frame was skipping two bytes too few,
   resulting in broken processing of all following bytes. Patch by Mike Chen.
+* libEBML: the optional, bundled version of libEBML was updated to v1.4.1.
 
 
 # Version 51.0.0 "I Wish" 2020-10-04
diff --git a/lib/libebml b/lib/libebml
index 6145c5700..f9fc9a891 160000
--- a/lib/libebml
+++ b/lib/libebml
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 6145c5700d894312c4dd47ba6c1ace72075b0692
+Subproject commit f9fc9a89177e9bcdc1a34ac7ab76114ddd6149c8