diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.8.bb
similarity index 94%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.7.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.8.bb
index 315df3f854..1e9d9d74f1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_0.16.8.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 DEPENDS = "zlib curl libsigc++-2.0 openssl cppunit"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent;branch=master;protocol=https;tag=v${PV}"
-SRCREV = "336c16c017309a694b9e0b420c9063d016bd83ee"
+SRCREV = "1534b1563f464fd1636c0b55e1591b72f7d8ab6b"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"