diff --git a/cmake/configs/default.cmake b/cmake/configs/default.cmake
index 85868659fe..adbf8039fd 100644
--- a/cmake/configs/default.cmake
+++ b/cmake/configs/default.cmake
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ hunter_default_version(SDL_mixer VERSION 2.0.2-p0)
 hunter_default_version(SDL_ttf VERSION 2.0.14-p0)
 hunter_default_version(Snappy VERSION 1.1.6-p0)
 hunter_default_version(Sober VERSION 0.1.3)
-hunter_default_version(SuiteSparse VERSION 4.5.1-p1)
+hunter_default_version(SuiteSparse VERSION 5.1.2-p0)
 hunter_default_version(TCLAP VERSION 1.2.2-p1)
 hunter_default_version(TIFF VERSION 4.0.2-p5)
 hunter_default_version(Tesseract VERSION 3.05.01-hunter-3)
diff --git a/cmake/projects/SuiteSparse/hunter.cmake b/cmake/projects/SuiteSparse/hunter.cmake
index 1487728e53..7a53db4348 100644
--- a/cmake/projects/SuiteSparse/hunter.cmake
+++ b/cmake/projects/SuiteSparse/hunter.cmake
@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ hunter_add_version(
     SHA1
     1350eab5d1a8d488e7b28d217fa751906d4767da
 )
+## suitesparse-metis-for-windows version is 1.4.0
+## suitesparse library version is 5.1.2
+hunter_add_version(
+    PACKAGE_NAME
+    SuiteSparse
+    VERSION
+    "5.1.2-p0"
+    URL
+    "https://github.com/hunter-packages/suitesparse-metis-for-windows/archive/v1.4.0-p0.tar.gz"
+    SHA1
+    6ea701f288a51bc57f1db5918c6b0879d800ed28
+)
 
 
 hunter_cmake_args(