diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index bce2a829c4..561566e2a7 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ TCLIBC = "musl"
 # Distro config is evaluated after the machine config, so we have to explicitly
 # set the kernel provider to override a machine config.
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-yocto-tiny"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "4.4%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "4.9%"
 
 # We can use packagegroup-core-boot, but in the future we may need a new packagegroup-core-tiny
 #POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "packagegroup-core-boot"