diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
index 8efeb9c357..26263731f3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From d7263091bbea40fd97d4fccd295c0ea4f5a80ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 28d0fd6b73163fc2dbc10c7dc838a8222671f88c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:22:50 +0000
 Subject: [PATCH] libffi: ensure sysroot paths are not in libffi.pc
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index f047895..630bdd5 100644
+index 258107d..ef1a285 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(multi-os-directory,
+@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(multi-os-directory,
  
  # These variables are only ever used when we cross-build to X86_WIN32.
  # And we only support this with GCC, so...
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.4.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.5.1.bb
similarity index 89%
rename from meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.4.8.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.5.1.bb
index 7f927c650b..be16008e0f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.4.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.5.1.bb
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully feat
 A layer must exist above `libffi' that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages."
 
 LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1db54c9fd307a12218766c3c7f650ca7"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=ce4763670c5b7756000561f9af1ab178"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://not-win32.patch \
            "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bc9842a18898bfacb0ed1252c4febcc7e78fa139fd27fdc7a3e30d9d9356119b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f99eb68a67c7d54866b7706af245e87ba060d419a062474b456d3bc8d4abdbd1"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-builddir --disable-exec-static-tramp"
 EXTRA_OECONF:class-native += "--with-gcc-arch=generic"