diff --git a/package/autoconf/autoconf.hash b/package/autoconf/autoconf.hash
index f53e8979c0..de0840dd84 100644
--- a/package/autoconf/autoconf.hash
+++ b/package/autoconf/autoconf.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	64ebcec9f8ac5b2487125a86a7760d2591ac9e1d3dbd59489633f9de62a57684  autoconf-2.69.tar.xz
-sha256	8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYINGv3
-sha256	23ed0b84fa023bfa33433b498192cd08a3bfb1f4864a8ed791a84f3eb48b2dd2  COPYING.EXCEPTION
+sha256  f14c83cfebcc9427f2c3cea7258bd90df972d92eb26752da4ddad81c87a0faa4  autoconf-2.71.tar.xz
+sha256  3972dc9744f6499f0f9b2dbf76696f2ae7ad8af9b23dde66d6af86c9dfb36986  COPYINGv3
+sha256  1f1cde9fb68b9b3cff18c420894bec5bd4defacd700b7d13df54a887301e5350  COPYING.EXCEPTION
diff --git a/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk b/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
index 336ac59b42..5742ea6c55 100644
--- a/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
+++ b/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-AUTOCONF_VERSION = 2.69
+AUTOCONF_VERSION = 2.71
 AUTOCONF_SOURCE = autoconf-$(AUTOCONF_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOCONF_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/autoconf