diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
index 17f45456ad..1f77db2fe0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From b89a6b1ebfde657a8ff3c325297caf2bfbd1f7f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 3b0ec51416b341cdb681796bd52dfe86d0d9bea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:22:50 +0000
 Subject: [PATCH] libffi: ensure sysroot paths are not in libffi.pc
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 2c8ba77..4e92515 100644
+index 3370acc..2f96c6f 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(multi-os-directory,
+@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(multi-os-directory,
  
  # These variables are only ever used when we cross-build to X86_WIN32.
  # And we only support this with GCC, so...
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.7.1.bb
similarity index 61%
rename from meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.6.0.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.7.1.bb
index 8868279d6a..0b35618b9b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.7.1.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:
+#
+# --- LICENSE
+# +++ LICENSE
+# @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+# -libffi - Copyright (c) 1996-2025  Anthony Green, Red Hat, Inc and others.
+# +libffi - Copyright (c) 1996-2026  Anthony Green, Red Hat, Inc and others.
+#  See source files for details.
+#  
+#  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# 
+#
+
 SUMMARY = "A portable foreign function interface library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceware.org/libffi/"
 DESCRIPTION = "The `libffi' library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling \
@@ -8,12 +27,12 @@ library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully feat
 A layer must exist above `libffi' that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages."
 
 LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=ce4763670c5b7756000561f9af1ab178"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5e9a8df556846bb3d1edec0d968a2311"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://not-win32.patch \
            "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "31ff1fe32deaebfbb388727f32677bb254bf2a41382c51464c0b1837c9ee9828"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d5e9a6638ddbd2513ddb54518eb67e4bbe6fa707bcc01c10f6212f0a088d819d"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-builddir"
 EXTRA_OECONF:class-native += "--with-gcc-arch=generic"