diff --git a/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.hash b/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.hash
index 8144c10258..ecd02f7174 100644
--- a/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.hash
+++ b/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  5c7795e46c24d848a2b960f3b994911165d95e5d5731e39105ee0d808d2373eb  libmatchbox-1.12.tar.bz2
+sha256  648d7e1af82e69b79c0932ff9f85e6781584eada5da8662f70196916dd208f55  libmatchbox-1.12.tar.gz
 sha256  a190dc9c8043755d90f8b0a75fa66b9e42d4af4c980bf5ddc633f0124db3cee7  COPYING
diff --git a/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.mk b/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.mk
index 00ca4a0d15..b6e4584052 100644
--- a/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.mk
+++ b/package/matchbox-lib/matchbox-lib.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 MATCHBOX_LIB_VERSION = 1.12
-MATCHBOX_LIB_SOURCE = libmatchbox-$(MATCHBOX_LIB_VERSION).tar.bz2
+MATCHBOX_LIB_SOURCE = libmatchbox-$(MATCHBOX_LIB_VERSION).tar.gz
 MATCHBOX_LIB_SITE = http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/libmatchbox/snapshot
 MATCHBOX_LIB_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
 MATCHBOX_LIB_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING