diff --git a/package/libgpiod/Config.in b/package/libgpiod/Config.in
index 63a7cb6e78..293eef6c89 100644
--- a/package/libgpiod/Config.in
+++ b/package/libgpiod/Config.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGPIOD
 	  This is a C library that abstracts the GPIO character
 	  device operations on linux.
 
-	  https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod
+	  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGPIOD
 
diff --git a/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.hash b/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.hash
index f0009a7510..0ea15869b0 100644
--- a/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.hash
+++ b/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/libgpiod/sha256sums.asc
-sha256 21ae8fd1f8dafc2eb2ba50e652390cf533d21351419a7426255895cb52e21b1c  libgpiod-1.4.1.tar.xz
+sha256  a041b06907c956dd1c77836cccf4d392af29b9fe09c8ad18449a6da707b5ba2d  libgpiod-1.4.5.tar.xz
 # Hash for license file
-sha256 ce64d5f7b49ea6d80fdb6d4cdee6839d1a94274f7493dc797c3b55b65ec8e9ed  COPYING
+sha256  ce64d5f7b49ea6d80fdb6d4cdee6839d1a94274f7493dc797c3b55b65ec8e9ed  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.mk b/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.mk
index 2474ab90a2..83d5abb002 100644
--- a/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.mk
+++ b/package/libgpiod/libgpiod.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBGPIOD_VERSION = 1.4.1
+# be careful when bumping versions, newer branches (e.g. >= 1.6)
+# depend on pretty recent kernel headers
+LIBGPIOD_VERSION = 1.4.5
 LIBGPIOD_SOURCE = libgpiod-$(LIBGPIOD_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBGPIOD_SITE = https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/libgpiod
 LIBGPIOD_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+