1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.1.12.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.1.12.bb
index e26e8a9b57..55a65e6c08 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.1.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.1.12.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=17f20574c0b154d12236d5fbe964f549"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-${PV}-stable/${BP}-stable.tar.gz \
+SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/release-${PV}-stable/${BP}-stable.tar.gz \
            file://Makefile-missing-test-dir.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://0001-test-regress_dns.c-patch-out-tests-that-require-a-wo.patch \
@@ -21,15 +21,14 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-${PV}-
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "92e6de1be9ec176428fd2367677e61ceffc2ee1cb119035037a27d346b0403bb"
-
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://libevent.org/"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/release-(?P<pver>.+)-stable"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}-stable"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "--enable-openssl,--disable-openssl,openssl"
 
-inherit autotools
+inherit autotools github-releases
 
 # Needed for Debian packaging
 LEAD_SONAME = "libevent-2.1.so"