diff --git a/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk b/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
index f9e9331d0f..c0b85e2f90 100644
--- a/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
+++ b/package/libsoup/libsoup.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 #
 #############################################################
 
-LIBSOUP_VERSION:=2.4.1
-LIBSOUP_SOURCE:=libsoup-$(LIBSOUP_VERSION).tar.gz
-LIBSOUP_SITE:=http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.4
+LIBSOUP_MAJOR_VERSION:=2.26
+LIBSOUP_VERSION:=$(LIBSOUP_MAJOR_VERSION).2
+LIBSOUP_SOURCE:=libsoup-$(LIBSOUP_VERSION).tar.bz2
+LIBSOUP_SITE:=http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/$(LIBSOUP_MAJOR_VERSION)
 LIBSOUP_AUTORECONF = NO
 LIBSOUP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBSOUP_INSTALL_TARGET = YES
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ LIBSOUP_CONF_OPT = \
 	--enable-static		\
 	--disable-explicit-deps \
 	--disable-glibtest	\
+	--without-gnome		\
 	--disable-gtk-doc --without-html-dir
 
 LIBSOUP_DEPENDENCIES = uclibc gettext libintl host-pkgconfig host-libglib2 libglib2 libxml2