diff --git a/package/make/make.hash b/package/make/make.hash
index db95c60191..528822f3a5 100644
--- a/package/make/make.hash
+++ b/package/make/make.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+# From http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-05/msg00013.html
+sha1 85ad14d08766201ffe71efa866f4fb91  make-4.2.tar.bz2
 # Locally calculated after checking signature
-sha256	0bc7613389650ee6a24554b52572a272f7356164fd2c4132b0bcf13123e4fca5	make-4.1.tar.bz2
+sha256 4e5ce3b62fe5d75ff8db92b7f6df91e476d10c3aceebf1639796dc5bfece655f  make-4.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/make/make.mk b/package/make/make.mk
index 20702dc237..43f4f7788d 100644
--- a/package/make/make.mk
+++ b/package/make/make.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MAKE_VERSION = 4.1
+MAKE_VERSION = 4.2
 MAKE_SOURCE = make-$(MAKE_VERSION).tar.bz2
 MAKE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/make
 MAKE_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext)