diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.26.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.27.bb
similarity index 75%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.26.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.27.bb
index 1d1511a595..32d036f900 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.26.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.27.bb
@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specification
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "(LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3) & GPLv3+"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=91146090ae24a0572879d3b48646d404 \
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3231f57e8fce0f62f81b03107e788888 \
                     file://COPYING.LESSERv2;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                     file://COPYING.LESSERv3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
                     file://COPYINGv2;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://COPYINGv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
-                    file://lib/idna.h;endline=21;md5=7364f6a250728ffe16170f5e3ab37512 \
-                    file://src/idn.c;endline=20;md5=7d7235e7951ac87d9dfac42e1b69d9cb"
-PR = "r1"
+                    file://lib/idna.h;endline=21;md5=f73089b7f52dd2cb3540e274bd76106d \
+                    file://src/idn.c;endline=20;md5=d7797e6cc3a7b48e6050fc0d27104595"
 
 inherit pkgconfig autotools gettext
 
@@ -20,8 +19,8 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/libidn/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://dont-depend-on-help2man.patch \
 "
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7533d14fbbb6c026a1a9eaa2179ccb69"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0a2f4c71c80f8f389a99d5a26539a9be4a4ac42cd7f375aa41046660f63cc53c"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3a0803551893d3d09efd472ff71c8028"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "103ff719d36484ebfb57272e8155312da105caa5d3f42d51d45e1930356e95fd"
 
 # command tool is under GPLv3+, while libidn itself is under LGPLv2.1+ or LGPLv3
 # so package command into a separate package