diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.6.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.8.1.bb
similarity index 94%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.6.4.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.8.1.bb
index e48f4dbd7f..406ecbbec4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.6.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.8.1.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LICENSE:${PN}-locale = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LICENSE:liblzma = "0BSD"
 
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c02de712b028a5cc7e22472e8f2b3db1 \
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d38d562f6112174de93a9677682231b2 \
                     file://COPYING.0BSD;md5=0672c210ce80c83444339b9aa31fee2f \
                     file://COPYING.GPLv2;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://COPYING.GPLv3;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c02de712b028a5cc7e22472e8f2b3db1 \
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/download/v${PV}/xz-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://run-ptest \
           "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "269e3f2e512cbd3314849982014dc199a7b2148cf5c91cedc6db629acdf5e09b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "507825b599356c10dca1cd720c9d0d0c9d5400b9de300af00e4d1ea150795543"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/"