diff --git a/package/liburing/Config.in b/package/liburing/Config.in
index fc13f1c17c..29df944ce1 100644
--- a/package/liburing/Config.in
+++ b/package/liburing/Config.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBURING
 	  simplified interface for applications that don't need (or
 	  want) to deal with the full kernel side implementation.
 
-	  https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/liburing
+	  https://github.com/axboe/liburing
 
 comment "liburing needs a toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.9, headers >= 5.1"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
diff --git a/package/liburing/liburing.hash b/package/liburing/liburing.hash
index f06dd187a7..d37b69497f 100644
--- a/package/liburing/liburing.hash
+++ b/package/liburing/liburing.hash
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  78bcc0dc0d004a238d8b5f597adbb4ec74926352a3983b872db7f0efdb72565d  liburing-2.6.tar.bz2
+sha256  f1d10cb058c97c953b4c0c446b11e9177e8c8b32a5a88b309f23fdd389e26370  liburing-2.12.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license files
 sha256  592987e8510228d546540b84a22444bde98e48d03078d3b2eefcd889bec5ce8c  COPYING
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING.GPL
 sha256  2ec12f7934cdfce25ff72b0557738989d79fc7a496d1cf9b2d3f9464fd61edbe  LICENSE
-sha256  b0731ca09e6f4718d456a989d32b6c61bf27e5d4bab6ca31e409d75c5120d19e  README
+sha256  d98e81bb7a8fcfb5506f02c3190b5bc2e286970591072edc4575c26624d827dd  README
diff --git a/package/liburing/liburing.mk b/package/liburing/liburing.mk
index fc3993b38c..24ceb281b5 100644
--- a/package/liburing/liburing.mk
+++ b/package/liburing/liburing.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBURING_VERSION = 2.6
-LIBURING_SOURCE = liburing-$(LIBURING_VERSION).tar.bz2
-LIBURING_SITE = https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/liburing/snapshot
+LIBURING_VERSION = liburing-2.12
+LIBURING_SOURCE = $(LIBURING_VERSION).tar.gz
+LIBURING_SITE = $(call github,axboe,liburing,$(LIBURING_VERSION))
 LIBURING_LICENSE = (GPL-2.0 with exceptions and LGPL-2.1+) or MIT
 LIBURING_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.GPL LICENSE README
 LIBURING_INSTALL_STAGING = YES