diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.9.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.9.0.bb
index e9bb21bd55c..9b337648390 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.9.0.bb
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f4fedd6116da0e171f7cb4d2923d7ac2"
 
 VERSION_TAG = "${@d.getVar('PV').replace('.', '_')}"
 
-SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/R_${VERSION_TAG}/expat-${PV}.tar.bz2  \
+SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/R_${VERSION_TAG}/expat-${PV}.tar.xz  \
            file://run-ptest \
            "
 
 GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/R_(?P<pver>.+)"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "775e8a68f81a748a401dc3168318d4a39484eb4f954726f21517c8f42c0ba984"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1e6371862cc31999b368c3b89b49994f0677e1bab5f1b2b85ae3741f5d803051"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE:class-native += "-DEXPAT_BUILD_DOCS=OFF"