diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/jasper/jasper_4.2.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/jasper/jasper_4.2.8.bb
index dd3cf3fdb6..e00b56ddbf 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/jasper/jasper_4.2.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/jasper/jasper_4.2.8.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=a80440d1d8f17d041c71c7271d6e06eb"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/jasper-software/${BPN}/releases/download/version-${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "98058a94fbff57ec6e31dcaec37290589de0ba6f47c966f92654681a56c71fae"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/releases"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/version-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
 inherit cmake multilib_header
 
 do_configure:prepend() {