diff --git a/package/tio/Config.in b/package/tio/Config.in
index d5d619100e..a84daf8a24 100644
--- a/package/tio/Config.in
+++ b/package/tio/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_TIO
 	bool "tio"
 	depends on !BR2_sparc64 && !BR2_sparc
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_INIH
 	help
 	  "tio" is a simple TTY terminal application which features a
 	  straightforward commandline interface to easily connect to
diff --git a/package/tio/tio.hash b/package/tio/tio.hash
index 3053bd1bf0..5058ccca8e 100644
--- a/package/tio/tio.hash
+++ b/package/tio/tio.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Locally computed:
-sha256 a8f5ed6994cacb96780baa416b19e5a6d7d67e8c162a8ea4fd9eccd64984ae44  tio-1.32.tar.xz
+# From https://github.com/tio/tio/releases/download/v1.40/tio-1.40.tar.xz.sha256sum:
+sha256  beafc4763552ff7cf3a368e8af36258018ef85fac32133c4635051d7615ab527  tio-1.40.tar.xz
 
 # Hash for license files:
-sha256 8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
+sha256  9248dee77ee136321f24556a96e07ff8f90461013941884a9defd0ac825ef131  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/tio/tio.mk b/package/tio/tio.mk
index 31f1dfb5a8..5c469667f6 100644
--- a/package/tio/tio.mk
+++ b/package/tio/tio.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TIO_VERSION = 1.32
+TIO_VERSION = 1.40
 TIO_SOURCE = tio-$(TIO_VERSION).tar.xz
 TIO_SITE = https://github.com/tio/tio/releases/download/v$(TIO_VERSION)
 TIO_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
-TIO_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+TIO_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+TIO_DEPENDENCIES = inih
 
-$(eval $(autotools-package))
+$(eval $(meson-package))