diff --git a/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.36.recipe b/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.40.recipe
similarity index 88%
rename from media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.36.recipe
rename to media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.40.recipe
index 931117fa4..c06b06924 100644
--- a/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.36.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-10.40.recipe
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ enables editing of the metadata of a large variety of files. This includes all \
 major image formats which support metadata as well as the vendor-specific \
 metadata of numerous digital cameras."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/"
-COPYRIGHT="2003-2016 Phil Harvey"
+COPYRIGHT="2003-2017 Phil Harvey"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v1
 	Artistic"
 REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="2019427b6565e2cff3c1301ab3281a40e602e70eff931448a1601b96ef4a67f3"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="9e3619e2f9c838b37f67ab55fd541b5472b328d5f464468442367292666a05dc"
 SOURCE_DIR="Image-ExifTool-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="any"