diff --git a/package/gcc/Config.in.host b/package/gcc/Config.in.host
index ee4d0eb9f4..362a678182 100644
--- a/package/gcc/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/gcc/Config.in.host
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ config BR2_GCC_VERSION
 	string
 	default "4.7.4"     if BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_7_X
 	default "4.8.5"     if BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_8_X
-	default "4.9.3"     if BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_9_X
+	default "4.9.4"     if BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_9_X
 	default "5.3.0"     if BR2_GCC_VERSION_5_X
 	default "6.1.0" if BR2_GCC_VERSION_6_X
 	default "arc-2015.12" if BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_8_ARC
diff --git a/package/gcc/gcc.hash b/package/gcc/gcc.hash
index 8d2feaf1a4..ad711c836c 100644
--- a/package/gcc/gcc.hash
+++ b/package/gcc/gcc.hash
@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@ sha512  9ac57377a6975fc7adac704ec81355262b9f537def6955576753b87715470a20ee6a2a31
 sha512  d619847383405fd389f5a2d7225f97fedb01f81478dbb8339047ccba7561a5c20045ab500a8744bffd19ea51892ce09fc37f862f2cfcb42de0f0f8cd8f8da37a  gcc-5.3.0.tar.bz2
 # From ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-6.1.0/sha512.sum
 sha512  eeed3e2018b8c012aabce419e8d718fde701e5c3c179b4486c61ba46e5736eecc8fccdd18b01fcd973a42c6ad3116dbbe2ee247fe3757d622d373f93ebaf8d2e  gcc-6.1.0.tar.bz2
+# From ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.9.4/sha512.sum
+sha512	93abb78e16277454f41a8e9810f41f66c0fdffdc539a762ff6b67d3037f78db971378683fd2ebf707d1d51c059fad2161fe42d110c330027f40214b7db0f3efe  gcc-4.9.4.tar.bz2
 # No hash for the ARC variant, comes from the github-helper:
 none  xxx  gcc-arc-2015.12.tar.gz