diff --git a/meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.3.bb b/meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.5.bb
similarity index 65%
rename from meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.3.bb
rename to meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.5.bb
index 53d5abb..ef73238 100644
--- a/meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-tpm/recipes-tpm2/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools_5.5.bb
@@ -8,16 +8,11 @@ DEPENDS = "tpm2-abrmd tpm2-tss openssl curl autoconf-archive"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/tpm2-software/${BPN}/releases/download/${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e7ce2fd36ef5cdbd7872d823a442e8754a4f0ca7c54b60efcdb75c12a1f98f8f"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1fdb49c730537bfdaed088884881a61e3bfd121e957ec0bdceeec0261236c123"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/tpm2-software/${BPN}/releases"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig bash-completion
 
-do_configure:prepend() {
-    # do not extract the version number from git
-    sed -i -e 's/m4_esyscmd_s(\[git describe --tags --always --dirty\])/${PV}/' ${S}/configure.ac
-}
-
 # need tss-esys
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libtss2 tpm2-abrmd"