diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/remove-gets.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/remove-gets.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f61c92b15..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/remove-gets.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-use gets iff its defined. eglibc 2.16 removed gets
-
-Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-Index: coreutils-8.14/lib/stdio.in.h
-===================================================================
---- coreutils-8.14.orig/lib/stdio.in.h	2011-09-24 04:20:48.000000000 -0700
-+++ coreutils-8.14/lib/stdio.in.h	2012-07-03 10:36:19.886296576 -0700
-@@ -713,11 +713,13 @@
- _GL_CXXALIAS_SYS (gets, char *, (char *s));
- #  undef gets
- # endif
-+# if defined gets
- _GL_CXXALIASWARN (gets);
- /* It is very rare that the developer ever has full control of stdin,
-    so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning.  Assume it is
-    always declared, since it is required by C89.  */
- _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
-+# endif
- #endif
- 
- 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/coreutils-build-with-acl.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/coreutils-build-with-acl.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/coreutils-build-with-acl.patch
rename to meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/coreutils-build-with-acl.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/dummy_help2man.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/dummy_help2man.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4757f52aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/dummy_help2man.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [disable feature]
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+diff -Nurd coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk
+--- coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk	2013-02-05 16:01:21.000000000 +0200
++++ coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk	2013-03-23 09:12:53.360470192 +0200
+@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
+ EXTRA_DIST += man/help2man man/dummy-man
+
+ ## Graceful degradation for systems lacking perl.
+-if HAVE_PERL
+-run_help2man = $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/man/help2man
+-else
++#if HAVE_PERL
++#run_help2man = $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/man/help2man
++#else
+ run_help2man = $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/man/dummy-man
+-endif
++#endif
+
+ man1_MANS = @man1_MANS@
+ EXTRA_DIST += $(man1_MANS:.1=.x)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch
rename to meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.21/remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
similarity index 91%
rename from meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb
rename to meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
index b82bbe4145..e789f59f0b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://debbugs.gnu.org/coreutils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504\
-                    file://src/ls.c;beginline=5;endline=16;md5=2e9acd8818fe6db4c2981d20ca632553"
-PR = "r5"
+                    file://src/ls.c;beginline=5;endline=16;md5=38b79785ca88537b75871782a2a3c6b8"
+PR = "r0"
 DEPENDS = "gmp libcap"
 DEPENDS_class-native = ""
 
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ inherit autotools gettext
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/coreutils/${BP}.tar.xz \
            file://remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch \
-           file://remove-gets.patch \
            file://coreutils-build-with-acl.patch \
+           file://dummy_help2man.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "bcb135ce553493a45aba01b39eb3920a"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0d120817c19292edb19e92ae6b8eac9020e03d51e0af9cb116cf82b65d18b02d"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "065ba41828644eca5dd8163446de5d64"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "adaa44bdab3fa5eb352e80d8a31fdbf957b78653d0c2cd30d63e161444288e18"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-acl"
 EXTRA_OECONF_class-native = "--disable-acl --without-gmp"