diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk.hash b/package/gawk/gawk.hash
index b658359257..35524c7742 100644
--- a/package/gawk/gawk.hash
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.3.2.tar.xz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.4.0.tar.xz.sig
 # Primary key fingerprint: D196 7C63 7887 1317 7D86  1ED7 DF59 7815 937E C0D2
-sha256  f8c3486509de705192138b00ef2c00bbbdd0e84c30d5c07d23fc73a9dc4cc9cc  gawk-5.3.2.tar.xz
+sha256  3dd430f0cd3b4428c6c3f6afc021b9cd3c1f8c93f7a688dc268ca428a90b4ac1  gawk-5.4.0.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk.mk b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
index 40b0672da2..10ca336844 100644
--- a/package/gawk/gawk.mk
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GAWK_VERSION = 5.3.2
+GAWK_VERSION = 5.4.0
 GAWK_SOURCE = gawk-$(GAWK_VERSION).tar.xz
 GAWK_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gawk
 GAWK_DEPENDENCIES = host-gawk