diff --git a/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash b/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
index 4c3b8acd62..546ad3a6a3 100644
--- a/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
+++ b/package/libcurl/libcurl.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	b222566e7087cd9701b301dd6634b360ae118cc1cbc7697e534dc451102ea4e0	curl-7.39.0.tar.bz2
+sha256	899109eb3900fa6b8a2f995df7f449964292776a04763e94fae640700f883fba	curl-7.40.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
index 62ea5fb873..db5fdb76d3 100644
--- a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
+++ b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBCURL_VERSION = 7.39.0
+LIBCURL_VERSION = 7.40.0
 LIBCURL_SOURCE = curl-$(LIBCURL_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBCURL_SITE = http://curl.haxx.se/download
 LIBCURL_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf \