diff --git a/recipes-extended/upx/upx_git.bb b/recipes-extended/upx/upx_git.bb
index dde1bf9f..79cf17a9 100644
--- a/recipes-extended/upx/upx_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-extended/upx/upx_git.bb
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=353753597aa110e0ded3508408c6374a"
 # Note: DO NOT use released tarball in favor of the git repository with submodules.
 # it makes maintenance easier for CVEs or other issues.
 
-SRCREV_upx = "44e4bd0b5454ff8aee1ff3376974dfe6014300d9"
-PV = "4.2.4+git${SRCPV}"
+SRCREV_upx = "ca97430db28bf264f4007118555c10f63be2a9c8"
+PV = "5.0.1+git${SRCPV}"
 
 # SRCREVs are from:
 #   git submodule status | awk '{ commit_hash = $1; sub(/vendor\//, "", $2); gsub("-", "_", $2); printf "SRCREV_vendor_%s = \"%s\"\n", $2, commit_hash }'
@@ -26,15 +26,13 @@ SRCREV_vendor_zlib = "0a41a7d0a974d0b43afe4afe4b8025c8f144474e"
 # SRC_URI = "gitsm://github.com/upx/upx;protocol=https;;name=upx;branch=devel"
 SRCREV_FORMAT = "upx"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/upx/upx;name=upx;branch=devel;protocol=https \
-           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-doctest;name=vendor_doctest;subdir=git/vendor/doctest;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
-           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-lzma-sdk;name=vendor_lzma_sdk;subdir=git/vendor/lzma-sdk;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
-           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-ucl;name=vendor_ucl;subdir=git/vendor/ucl;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
-           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-zlib;name=vendor_zlib;subdir=git/vendor/zlib;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
-           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-valgrind;name=vendor_valgrind;subdir=git/vendor/valgrind;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
+           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-doctest;name=vendor_doctest;subdir=${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/doctest;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
+           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-lzma-sdk;name=vendor_lzma_sdk;subdir=${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/lzma-sdk;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
+           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-ucl;name=vendor_ucl;subdir=${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/ucl;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
+           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-zlib;name=vendor_zlib;subdir=${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/zlib;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
+           git://github.com/upx/upx-vendor-valgrind;name=vendor_valgrind;subdir=${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/valgrind;branch=upx-vendor;protocol=https \
 	   "
 
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
 inherit pkgconfig cmake
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"