diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_4.2.0.bb
similarity index 94%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_git.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_4.2.0.bb
index b22c1e8c62..299bfbf310 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/wrk/wrk_4.2.0.bb
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1a1b7dfe4016fcf67ae4715f167a0043"
 
 DEPENDS = "luajit luajit-native openssl"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/wg/wrk.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/wg/wrk.git;protocol=https;branch=master;tag=${PV}"
 SRCREV = "a211dd5a7050b1f9e8a9870b95513060e72ac4a0"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
 # Use system luajit and openssl instead of bundled deps/
 # luajit headers install to a versioned subdir, point include path explicitly
 # LUA_PATH must point to luajit-native's jit.* modules for bytecode compilation (-b)