diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat/avoid-check-user-break-cc.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat/avoid-check-user-break-cc.patch
index fc42c8cba7..d6955e3fe9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat/avoid-check-user-break-cc.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat/avoid-check-user-break-cc.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 04fd678939ad0c21f57222c48305bfa29c8f6cf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From bc2f675cd1e2ccca1524f35462c61f2dcb9ee8df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
 Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 17:17:01 +0800
 Subject: [PATCH] diffstat: fix wrong evaluation of CC
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
-index 1c653ea..8f0540d 100644
+index 7ee539c..fcc48fd 100644
 --- a/aclocal.m4
 +++ b/aclocal.m4
 @@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ CF_GCC_VERSION
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.67.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.68.bb
similarity index 45%
rename from meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.67.bb
rename to meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.68.bb
index 8c84b30975..ab0bed100b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.67.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/diffstat/diffstat_1.68.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+# 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 1994-2023,2024 by Thomas E.  Dickey
+# +Copyright 1994-2024,2025 by Thomas E.  Dickey
+#  
+#  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+#  this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+# 
+#
+
 SUMMARY = "Tool to produce a statistics based on a diff"
 DESCRIPTION = "diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of \
 the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for \
@@ -5,14 +24,14 @@ reviewing large, complex patch files."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "X11"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6232ea974e4cbc4ee06b49ed53df6ece"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0c432d3aeb935855b2ca1ad2a0542ce4"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/${BPN}/${BP}.tgz \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://avoid-check-user-break-cc.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "760ed0c99c6d643238d41b80e60278cf1683ffb94a283954ac7ef168c852766a"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "89f9294a8ac74fcef6f1b9ac408f43ebedf8d208e3efe0b99b4acc16dc6582c7"
 
 inherit autotools gettext ptest