diff --git a/roles/gitea/defaults/main.yml b/roles/gitea/defaults/main.yml
index 938b87252..fff7e0b28 100644
--- a/roles/gitea/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/gitea/defaults/main.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 # Info needed to install Gitea:
 
-gitea_version: 1.18    # 2022-01-30: Grabs latest from this MAJOR/MINOR release branch.  Rather than exhaustively hard-coding point releases (e.g. 1.14.5) every few weeks.
+gitea_version: 1.19    # 2022-01-30: Grabs latest from this MAJOR/MINOR release branch.  Rather than exhaustively hard-coding point releases (e.g. 1.14.5) every few weeks.
 iset_suffixes:
   i386: 386
   x86_64: amd64