diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.6.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.7.bb
similarity index 90%
rename from meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.6.bb
rename to meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.7.bb
index deddb60f63..0e891c1498 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/libtraceevent/libtraceevent_1.8.7.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSES/GPL-2.0;md5=e6a75371ba4d16749254a51215d13f97
                     file://LICENSES/LGPL-2.1;md5=b370887980db5dd40659b50909238dbd"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-SRCREV = "98c217427183f66f09f4a27300ad87d71814c38f"
+SRCREV = "7a8fee57d87aa61c9d578cd67e99d2677b894772"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git;branch=${BPN};protocol=https \
           "
 
@@ -19,3 +19,5 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Ddoc=false"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-plugins"
 
 FILES:${PN}-plugins += "${libdir}/traceevent/plugins"
+
+BPN = "libtraceevent-v1.8"