diff --git a/package/heimdal/heimdal.hash b/package/heimdal/heimdal.hash
index 12770e17ff..a0e0f3f1ba 100644
--- a/package/heimdal/heimdal.hash
+++ b/package/heimdal/heimdal.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	cee58ab3a4ce79f243a3e73f465dac19fe2b93ef1c5ff244d6f1d689fedbde2d	heimdal-7.1.0.tar.gz
+# Locally calculated
+sha256 3de14ecd36ad21c1694a13da347512b047f4010d176fe412820664cb5d1429ad  heimdal-7.4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/heimdal/heimdal.mk b/package/heimdal/heimdal.mk
index 5376a6c40e..2d4b826a03 100644
--- a/package/heimdal/heimdal.mk
+++ b/package/heimdal/heimdal.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-HEIMDAL_VERSION = 7.1.0
-HEIMDAL_SITE = http://www.h5l.org/dist/src
+HEIMDAL_VERSION = 7.4.0
+HEIMDAL_SITE = https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/download/heimdal-$(HEIMDAL_VERSION)
 HOST_HEIMDAL_DEPENDENCIES = host-e2fsprogs host-ncurses host-pkgconf
 HEIMDAL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 HEIMDAL_MAKE = $(MAKE1)
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ HOST_HEIMDAL_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--enable-static \
 	--without-openldap \
 	--without-capng \
+	--with-db-type-preference= \
 	--without-sqlite3 \
 	--without-libintl \
 	--without-openssl \