diff --git a/package/grep/grep.hash b/package/grep/grep.hash
index 6f3bca89ad..c83e4653c3 100644
--- a/package/grep/grep.hash
+++ b/package/grep/grep.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking signature
-# http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.xz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.9.tar.xz.sig
 # using key 155D3FC500C834486D1EEA677FD9FCCB000BEEEE
-sha256  498d7cc1b4fb081904d87343febb73475cf771e424fb7e6141aff66013abc382  grep-3.8.tar.xz
+sha256  abcd11409ee23d4caf35feb422e53bbac867014cfeed313bb5f488aca170b599  grep-3.9.tar.xz
 sha256  3972dc9744f6499f0f9b2dbf76696f2ae7ad8af9b23dde66d6af86c9dfb36986  COPYING
diff --git a/package/grep/grep.mk b/package/grep/grep.mk
index 318e00940d..309987010f 100644
--- a/package/grep/grep.mk
+++ b/package/grep/grep.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GREP_VERSION = 3.8
+GREP_VERSION = 3.9
 GREP_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/grep
 GREP_SOURCE = grep-$(GREP_VERSION).tar.xz
 GREP_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+