diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
index 735db1441..8982a0d41 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
@@ -1,20 +1,38 @@
+# 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 2005-2020. All code is copyrighted by the respective authors.
+# +Copyright 2005-2023. All code is copyrighted by the respective authors.
+#  
+#  Transmission can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of
+#  the GNU GPLv2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLv2),
+# 
+#
+
 DESCRIPTION = "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client"
 SECTION = "network"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://transmissionbt.com/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=73f535ddffcf2a0d3af4f381f84f9b33"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ba8199e739948e198310093de27175fa"
 
 DEPENDS = "curl libevent gnutls openssl libtool intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-web = "${PN}"
 
-SRC_URI = " \
-	gitsm://github.com/transmission/transmission;branch=master;protocol=https \
-	file://transmission-daemon \
-"
+SRC_URI = "gitsm://github.com/transmission/transmission;branch=4.0.x;protocol=https \
+           file://transmission-daemon \
+           "
 
 # Transmission release 3.00
-SRCREV = "bb6b5a062ee594dfd4b7a12a6b6e860c43849bfd"
-PV = "3.00"
+SRCREV = "24077e35111cd6a6498fa61910bb54288a702bfc"
+PV = "4.0.4"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"