diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.7.9.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.8.1.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.7.9.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.8.1.bb
index d70cdb3d83..472b5820f0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.7.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.8.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "C library and command-line tools for reading and writing tar, cpi
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libarchive.org/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d499814247adaee08d88080841cb5665"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7ce08437ff7f5e24d72e666313ae4084"
 
 DEPENDS = "e2fsprogs-native"
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--enable-largefile --without-iconv"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "aa90732c5a6bdda52fda2ad468ac98d75be981c15dde263d7b5cf6af66fd009f"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bde832a5e3344dc723cfe9cc37f8e54bde04565bfe6f136bc1bd31ab352e9fab"
 
 inherit autotools update-alternatives pkgconfig