diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta
index d6b451a2fc..7c87444348 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
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 PKG_NAME="bison"
-PKG_VERSION="2.5"
+PKG_VERSION="2.5.1"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"