diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.5.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.5.4.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 83a366a8df..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.5.4.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Loudmouth is a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming with the Jabber protocol."
-HOMEPAGE = "http://www.loudmouth-project.org/"
-
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
-
-DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libcheck openssl libidn"
-
-GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "autotools"
-
-inherit gnomebase gtk-doc
-
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/mcabber/${BPN}/releases/download/${PV}/${BP}.tar.bz2"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/mcabber/loudmouth/releases"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "31cbc91c1fddcc5346b3373b8fb45594e9ea9cc7fe36d0595e8912c47ad94d0d"
-
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ssl=openssl --with-compile-warnings=no"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 084d5a201f..225cd95604 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity = "\
     libuv \
     libwebsockets \
     linuxptp \
-    loudmouth \
     modemmanager \
     mosh \
     ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "x11", "obex-data-server", "", d)} \