diff --git a/package/thermald/thermald.hash b/package/thermald/thermald.hash
index 3a7c0f6952..eceff77d37 100644
--- a/package/thermald/thermald.hash
+++ b/package/thermald/thermald.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  3e5a5033339c021de41ed4f946dd39e13f79f722fb5bd98d798e83658184c39b  thermald-2.4.8.tar.gz
+sha256  e6515678ce8ff37978a453e1617a087a40ba3a31809a42c1768b6f816e564cc9  thermald-2.5.tar.gz
 sha256  e98be8bc482e038a14bfbc01caf800bbd0024fff275ef14cd999db6560254a8d  COPYING
diff --git a/package/thermald/thermald.mk b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
index 4e43277128..38f6b5a00f 100644
--- a/package/thermald/thermald.mk
+++ b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-THERMALD_VERSION = 2.4.8
+THERMALD_VERSION = 2.5
 THERMALD_SITE = $(call github,intel,thermal_daemon,v$(THERMALD_VERSION))
 # fetched from Github, with no configure script
 THERMALD_AUTORECONF = YES