diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
index f3830374d3..5fde687ee2 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/sha256sums.asc
-sha256	813ffe59fddd2db423c578448b10e33e2e2d4cc2ba780f1f0c603642b20342f6	ethtool-3.18.tar.xz
+sha256	904887acc7d2f9c35dec04eb0e8a727a3205f346af4f4c95560ea3798de5ecff	ethtool-4.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
index 24e0f59a05..c358c6241b 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ETHTOOL_VERSION = 3.18
+ETHTOOL_VERSION = 4.0
 ETHTOOL_SOURCE = ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ETHTOOL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/network/ethtool
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE = GPLv2