diff --git a/meta-multimedia/recipes-mkv/libmatroska/libmatroska_1.7.2.bb b/meta-multimedia/recipes-mkv/libmatroska/libmatroska_1.7.2.bb
index a368c90d19..ed7a7af97d 100644
--- a/meta-multimedia/recipes-mkv/libmatroska/libmatroska_1.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-multimedia/recipes-mkv/libmatroska/libmatroska_1.7.2.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.LGPL;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 DEPENDS = "libebml"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska.git;branch=v1.x;protocol=https"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska.git;branch=v1.x;protocol=https;tag=release-${PV}"
 
 SRCREV = "280281a8aeb69881f70ee3d6ff26aa6d964365a3"