diff --git a/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.hash b/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.hash
index bead3c1807..3a736f428f 100644
--- a/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.hash
+++ b/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Hash from: https://www.apache.org/dist/qpid/proton/0.35.0/qpid-proton-0.35.0.tar.gz.sha512
-sha512  1031e3d45854107a516699e1d18269c6acb22549b2709c1fc1cd25eb870096de109077445f1b400edf231bb21a476a268e2d6674e986fc50e92a281549085543  qpid-proton-0.35.0.tar.gz
+# Hash from: https://archive.apache.org/dist/qpid/proton/0.40.0/qpid-proton-0.40.0.tar.gz.sha512
+sha512  3e7fe56ca1423f45f71d81f5e1d6ec5f21c073cc580628e12a8dbd545a86805b7312834e0d1234dde43797633d575ed639f21a96239b217500cc0a824482aae3  qpid-proton-0.40.0.tar.gz
 
 # Locally computed
 sha256  52310e65489d30afeefc8589479fc02862a875349c19edd165658a915009da82  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.mk b/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.mk
index 1f92068f18..c0b6be459b 100644
--- a/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.mk
+++ b/package/qpid-proton/qpid-proton.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-QPID_PROTON_VERSION = 0.35.0
+QPID_PROTON_VERSION = 0.40.0
 QPID_PROTON_SITE = \
 	https://archive.apache.org/dist/qpid/proton/$(QPID_PROTON_VERSION)
 QPID_PROTON_LICENSE = Apache-2.0