diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_0.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_0.6.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 97958dd4a2..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_0.6.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Simple top-like I/O monitor"
-DESCRIPTION = "iotop does for I/O usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. \
-    It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays \
-    a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system."
-HOMEPAGE = "http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/"
-
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4325afd396febcb659c36b49533135d4"
-
-PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
-
-SRCREV = "1bfb3bc70febb1ffb95146b6dcd65257228099a3"
-SRC_URI = "git://repo.or.cz/iotop.git;branch=master"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://repo.or.cz/iotop.git/tags"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "iotop-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
-
-inherit distutils3
-
-do_install:append() {
-    rm -f ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/site.pyo || true
-    rm -f ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/site.py  || true
-}
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-curses \
-                  python3-codecs python3-ctypes python3-pprint \
-                  python3-shell python3-core"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.20.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17c567095b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.20.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+SUMMARY = "A top utility for I/O"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=48e7be78bd2671d08c9c3bad71f1cfaa"
+
+DEPENDS = "ncurses"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop/releases/download/v1.20/iotop-1.20.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e0227dd4b71ce3ffe50225b85cf9abb38a99c1d2dff69e3f1db7d059d7490d51"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop/releases"
+
+inherit pkgconfig
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "V=1 STRIP=true"
+
+do_install() {
+    oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D}
+}