diff --git a/app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.6.recipe b/app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.recipe
similarity index 90%
rename from app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.6.recipe
rename to app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.recipe
index 74eca2471..7c7dab8c3 100644
--- a/app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.6.recipe
+++ b/app-arch/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.recipe
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. bzip2 \
 supports recovery from media errors as well. Its command line flags are \
 similar to those of GNU Gzip."
 HOMEPAGE="https://sourceware.org/bzip2/"
-COPYRIGHT="1996-2010 Julian R Seward"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2019 Julian R Seward"
 LICENSE="bzip2"
-REVISION="8"
-SOURCE_URI="https://fossies.org/linux/misc/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="a2848f34fcd5d6cf47def00461fcb528a0484d8edef8208d6d2e2909dc61d9cd"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/bzip2-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="ab5a03176ee106d3f0fa90e381da478ddae405918153cca248e682cd0c4a2269"
 PATCHES="bzip2-$portVersion.patchset"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64 arm sparc"
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ INSTALL()
 	fi
 
 	# also install shared lib
-	ln -sf libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so
-	cp -a libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so $libDir
+	ln -sf libbz2.so.$portVersion libbz2.so
+	cp -a libbz2.so.$portVersion libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so $libDir
 
 	# move man pages
 	mkdir -p $manDir
diff --git a/app-arch/bzip2/patches/bzip2-1.0.6.patchset b/app-arch/bzip2/patches/bzip2-1.0.8.patchset
similarity index 100%
rename from app-arch/bzip2/patches/bzip2-1.0.6.patchset
rename to app-arch/bzip2/patches/bzip2-1.0.8.patchset