diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.9.bb
similarity index 96%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.8.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.9.bb
index 187e794b3d..00dc2fb1d0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/logwatch/logwatch_7.9.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=ba882fa9b4b6b217a51780be3f4db9c8"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/${BPN}/${BP}/${BP}.tar.gz"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b1df31779306c2c87d595816305c89c19c382edf9ebbfce03143f567e580be42"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "49d2f1e99c9770f56fc3e82a46880e8900b874dfba593e45f599c89fd255738e"
 
 do_install() {
     install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/logwatch/scripts