diff --git a/package/iproute2/iproute2.hash b/package/iproute2/iproute2.hash
index 2263e89d80..e3fe013aea 100644
--- a/package/iproute2/iproute2.hash
+++ b/package/iproute2/iproute2.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/sha256sums.asc
-sha256	73077a989efb934450bd655cbd9aaddaa747cb696c64d0c9a3323768a6a8e66f	iproute2-4.1.1.tar.xz
+sha256	a4101e743e0da36b55f63353ff489699ddcd634ceca854a9a272346588f30f30	iproute2-4.2.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/iproute2/iproute2.mk b/package/iproute2/iproute2.mk
index c42c5c9f0c..d1aa6bf8c8 100644
--- a/package/iproute2/iproute2.mk
+++ b/package/iproute2/iproute2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IPROUTE2_VERSION = 4.1.1
+IPROUTE2_VERSION = 4.2.0
 IPROUTE2_SOURCE = iproute2-$(IPROUTE2_VERSION).tar.xz
 IPROUTE2_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/net/iproute2
 IPROUTE2_DEPENDENCIES = host-bison host-flex host-pkgconf \