diff --git a/stubs/Pygments/METADATA.toml b/stubs/Pygments/METADATA.toml
index 1768af3414c0..ad60f7038a31 100644
--- a/stubs/Pygments/METADATA.toml
+++ b/stubs/Pygments/METADATA.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version = "2.20.*"
+version = "2.21.*"
 upstream-repository = "https://github.com/pygments/pygments"
 optional-dependencies = ["types-docutils"]
 partial-stub = true
diff --git a/stubs/Pygments/pygments/util.pyi b/stubs/Pygments/pygments/util.pyi
index e2b63b730dd7..039bd80ab4a0 100644
--- a/stubs/Pygments/pygments/util.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Pygments/pygments/util.pyi
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@ def terminal_encoding(term: Any) -> str: ...
 
 class UnclosingTextIOWrapper(TextIOWrapper):
     def close(self) -> None: ...
+
+def html_escape(string: str, quote: bool = True) -> str: ...