diff --git a/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.hash b/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.hash
index c1d9f94461..24e5333d23 100644
--- a/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.hash
+++ b/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256	2a2e26b72aa235a23ab1c8471005f890309ce1196c83fbc9413c57b9ab62b587  sysvinit-2.96.tar.xz
+sha256	7b2c3ffaf19eaf1ca80268762f85f9e4eb8e3c973213d49f9802605b72caa7dc  sysvinit-2.98.tar.xz
 
 # Hash for license files:
 sha256	ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.mk b/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.mk
index c778a9cde5..c7ddf67c2f 100644
--- a/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.mk
+++ b/package/sysvinit/sysvinit.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SYSVINIT_VERSION = 2.96
+SYSVINIT_VERSION = 2.98
 SYSVINIT_SOURCE = sysvinit-$(SYSVINIT_VERSION).tar.xz
 SYSVINIT_SITE = http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit
 SYSVINIT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+