diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib/0001-Makefile-fix-typo-in-soname-argument.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib/0001-Makefile-fix-typo-in-soname-argument.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dc87ed60b9..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib/0001-Makefile-fix-typo-in-soname-argument.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From 7f0cd4b6b56183b0afbefd01425e5ebd2b8733b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 13:18:11 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: fix typo in soname argument
-
-* introduced in:
-  https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/b65c7ac2905c0842e7977a7b51d83af4486ca7b8/
-  there is no LIBUTILMAJOR variable only LIBUTILSOMAJOR leading to:
-
-  ld: fatal error: -soname: must take a non-empty argument
-  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
-
-  with some linkers like GOLD
-
-Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
----
-Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/merge-requests/17/]
-
- Makefile | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 87966a9..41b149e 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ $(LIBUTILSO): $(UOBJECTS) $(UHEADERS)
- ifeq ($(UNAME), Darwin)
- 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -dynamiclib -current_version $(LIBVER) $(OBJECTS) -o $(LIBUTILSO)
- else
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname -Wl,$(LIBUTILMAJOR) -o $(LIBUTILSO) $(UOBJECTS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname -Wl,$(LIBUTILSOMAJOR) -o $(LIBUTILSO) $(UOBJECTS)
- endif
- 
- libutil.a: $(UOBJECTS) $(UHEADERS)
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_5.2.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_6.1.2.bb
similarity index 77%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_5.2.2.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_6.1.2.bb
index aa47f93095..77f8905358 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_5.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/giflib/giflib_6.1.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "shared library for GIF images"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ae11c61b04b2917be39b11f78d71519a"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b427970b2f3a9142a4e432c78c4680f4"
 
 CVE_PRODUCT = "giflib_project:giflib"
 
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ DEPENDS = "xmlto-native"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/giflib/${BP}.tar.gz \
            https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/d54b45b0240d455bbaedee4be5203d2703e59967/tree/doc/giflib-logo.gif?format=raw;subdir=${BP}/doc;name=logo;downloadfilename=giflib-logo.gif \
-           file://0001-Makefile-fix-typo-in-soname-argument.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[logo.sha256sum] = "1a54383986adad1521d00e003b4c482c27e8bc60690be944a1f3319c75abc2c9"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "be7ffbd057cadebe2aa144542fd90c6838c6a083b5e8a9048b8ee3b66b29d5fb"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2421abb54f5906b14965d28a278fb49e1ec9fe5ebbc56244dd012383a973d5c0"
 
 do_install() {
     # using autotools's default will end up in /usr/local