diff --git a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
index c77627ee56..88548bf23e 100644
--- a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
+++ b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# From http://etherlab.org/download/ethercat/ethercat-1.5.2.tar.bz2.md5
-md5  6b4001f8d975865d74a0b108b3bdda3d  ethercat-1.5.2.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
+sha256  eb13a0f7f073ad54589c4f41829d9e995b37b26fbc7fcd05e3adb5e201e6feb4  igh-ethercat-2e2cef6131895336f87c57c18fe78ae01a90d3de.tar.gz
 sha256  231f7edcc7352d7734a96eef0b8030f77982678c516876fcb81e25b32d68564c  COPYING
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING.LESSER
diff --git a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
index 9fcfb4f6f2..1041ba0758 100644
--- a/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
+++ b/package/igh-ethercat/igh-ethercat.mk
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION = 1.5.2
-IGH_ETHERCAT_SITE = http://etherlab.org/download/ethercat
-IGH_ETHERCAT_SOURCE = ethercat-$(IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION).tar.bz2
+IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION = 2e2cef6131895336f87c57c18fe78ae01a90d3de
+IGH_ETHERCAT_SITE = $(call gitlab,etherlab.org,ethercat,$(IGH_ETHERCAT_VERSION))
 IGH_ETHERCAT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 (IgH EtherCAT master), LGPL-2.1 (libraries)
 IGH_ETHERCAT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LESSER
+# Fetching from Git
+IGH_ETHERCAT_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 IGH_ETHERCAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
@@ -21,5 +22,11 @@ IGH_ETHERCAT_CONF_OPTS = \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_IGH_ETHERCAT_E1000E),--enable-e1000e,--disable-e1000e) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_IGH_ETHERCAT_R8169),--enable-r8169,--disable-r8169)
 
+# Needed to make autoreconf happy
+define IGH_ETHERCAT_CREATE_CHANGELOG
+	touch $(@D)/ChangeLog
+endef
+IGH_ETHERCAT_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += IGH_ETHERCAT_CREATE_CHANGELOG
+
 $(eval $(kernel-module))
 $(eval $(autotools-package))