diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.4.0.bb
similarity index 77%
rename from meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.2.0.bb
rename to meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.4.0.bb
index 2c2e5a74dd..e5809e8d3d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/kea/kea_2.4.0.bb
@@ -1,9 +1,28 @@
+# FIXME: the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM values have been updated by 'devtool upgrade'.
+# The following is the difference between the old and the new license text.
+# Please update the LICENSE value if needed, and summarize the changes in
+# the commit message via 'License-Update:' tag.
+# (example: 'License-Update: copyright years updated.')
+#
+# The changes:
+#
+# --- COPYING
+# +++ COPYING
+# @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+# -Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+# +Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+#  
+#  This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+#  License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# 
+#
+
 SUMMARY = "ISC Kea DHCP Server"
 DESCRIPTION = "Kea is the next generation of DHCP software developed by ISC. It supports both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 protocols along with their extensions, e.g. prefix delegation and dynamic updates to DNS."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://kea.isc.org"
 SECTION = "connectivity"
 LICENSE = "MPL-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=97ce14bdd2733f5b84ab5e29380d057d"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ea061fa0188838072c4248c1318ec131"
 
 DEPENDS = "boost log4cplus openssl"
 
@@ -18,7 +37,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://ftp.isc.org/isc/kea/${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz \
            file://fix_pid_keactrl.patch \
            file://0001-src-lib-log-logger_unittest_support.cc-do-not-write-.patch \
            "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "da7d90ca62a772602dac6e77e507319038422895ad68eeb142f1487d67d531d2"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3a33cd08dc3319ff544e6bbf2c0429042106f4051ebe115dc1bb2625c95003f7"
 
 inherit autotools systemd update-rc.d upstream-version-is-even