diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
index 735db1441e..2f259ed873 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DEPENDS = "curl libevent gnutls openssl libtool intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-web = "${PN}"
 
 SRC_URI = " \
-	gitsm://github.com/transmission/transmission;branch=master;protocol=https \
+	gitsm://github.com/transmission/transmission;branch=main;protocol=https \
 	file://transmission-daemon \
 "