diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
index 19405a9877..16a8bb4609 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Upstream .sha256 from GitHub
-sha256  9a410b484713d9600c820d8113f2d80cb14708328c908b1a28e8b7b31fd54f57  sysklogd-2.3.0.tar.gz
+sha256  1d9ed88a772af95c8b46c9e92ddc5bf4a76ac233ec5850f084290b80df7e02c4  sysklogd-2.4.0.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  7a71d7603a7c4456df441463e54da35acf151c1be0879246de63544f1f34f477  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
index 20ce9d60e3..d6db71e50c 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.3.0
+SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.4.0
 SYSKLOGD_SITE = https://github.com/troglobit/sysklogd/releases/download/v$(SYSKLOGD_VERSION)
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE