diff --git a/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.hash b/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.hash
index fb5a570de8..59e42e98b9 100644
--- a/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.hash
+++ b/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  031691906794ff45e1e792561cf31759f5d29ac74936bc8dffb8b14f16d820b4  wolfssl-5.6.4.tar.gz
+sha256  75aaafe3b8c776d1ac417288116c8d444115f9fac5acb382a39a7d163dfd618d  wolfssl-5.6.6.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license files:
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.mk b/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.mk
index 17452fdcaf..68c69afd59 100644
--- a/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.mk
+++ b/package/wolfssl/wolfssl.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-WOLFSSL_VERSION = 5.6.4
-WOLFSSL_SITE = $(call github,wolfSSL,wolfssl,v$(WOLFSSL_VERSION)-stable)
+WOLFSSL_VERSION = 5.6.6
+WOLFSSL_SITE = https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/download/v$(WOLFSSL_VERSION)-stable
 WOLFSSL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
 WOLFSSL_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ WOLFSSL_CPE_ID_VENDOR = wolfssl
 WOLFSSL_CONFIG_SCRIPTS = wolfssl-config
 WOLFSSL_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 
-# wolfssl's source code is released without a configure
-# script, so we need autoreconf
-WOLFSSL_AUTORECONF = YES
-
 WOLFSSL_CONF_OPTS = --disable-examples --disable-crypttests
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_WOLFSSL_ALL),y)