diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/0001-scripts-common.m4-Insert-spaces-in-shell-lists.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/0001-scripts-common.m4-Insert-spaces-in-shell-lists.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1740b0f478
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/0001-scripts-common.m4-Insert-spaces-in-shell-lists.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 9df2559d55c454c7128b65103456c2f88b3bf2f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:45:02 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] scripts/common.m4: Insert spaces in shell lists
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+$1=$(echo "$result" | tr -d '\n')
+
+removes all newlines without inserting spaces
+That usually isn’t what we want for shell lists.
+It should typically be space-separated output.
+
+Fixes a bug seen with yocto where compiler is not a single word
+but a string e.g.
+
+ccache aarch64-yoe-linux-musl-clang++  -mcpu=cortex-a72+crc+nocrypto   --dyld-prefix=/usr -fstack-protector-strong  -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security --sysroot=/mnt/b/yoe/master/build/tmp/work/cortexa72-yoe-linux-musl/libtorrent/0.16.1/recipe-sysroot
+
+It changes it to
+
+ccacheaarch64-yoe-linux-musl-clang++-mcpu=cortex-a72+crc+nocrypto--dyld-prefix=/usr-fstack-protector-strong-O2-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2-Wformat-Wformat-security-Werror=format-security--sysroot=/mnt/b/yoe/master/build/tmp/work/cortexa72-yoe-linux-musl/libtorrent/0.16.1/recipe-sysroot
+
+When doing c++17 checks on compiler, resulting in failure
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent/pull/583]
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ scripts/common.m4 | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/common.m4 b/scripts/common.m4
+index 74b99e6a..44a5fe65 100644
+--- a/scripts/common.m4
++++ b/scripts/common.m4
+@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_REMOVE_UNWANTED],
+     $1="$2"
+   else
+     result=`echo "${values_to_check}" | $GREP -Fvx -- "${unwanted_values}" | $GREP -v '^$'`
+-    $1=$(echo "$result" | tr -d '\n')
++    # join with spaces, squeeze repeats, and trim trailing space
++    $1=$(printf '%s\n' "$result" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/  */ /g; s/ *$//')
+   fi
+ ])
+
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.14.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.1.bb
similarity index 76%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.14.0.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.1.bb
index 220bb62c64..4a8a68aa15 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.14.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.1.bb
@@ -4,16 +4,14 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
-DEPENDS = "zlib libsigc++-2.0 openssl cppunit"
+DEPENDS = "zlib curl libsigc++-2.0 openssl cppunit"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent;branch=master;protocol=https"
-SRCREV = "08fb6635ba249665cb08a4de1b955288d25c21e1"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent;branch=master;protocol=https;tag=v${PV} \
+		   file://0001-scripts-common.m4-Insert-spaces-in-shell-lists.patch"
+SRCREV = "919d23923ad0a483fa24441093eda1c12cea4c0b"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
 
-CVE_STATUS[CVE-2009-1760] = "backported-patch: patched in our product"
-
-
 CVE_PRODUCT = ""
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "instrumentation aligned"
@@ -27,4 +25,4 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[aligned] = "--enable-aligned,--disable-aligned,"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-zlib=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR}"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-posix-fallocate"