diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel/fix-openssl-no-des.patch b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel/fix-openssl-no-des.patch
index 3520bf429e..0e94a969c0 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel/fix-openssl-no-des.patch
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel/fix-openssl-no-des.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From e08b9760d319d0334f2aad02d32d791c8ebd8564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 08b1bf417be039b097fae25708861fe8184c739c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:23:41 -0400
 Subject: [PATCH] stunnel: fix compile error when openssl disable des support
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/src/common.h b/src/common.h
-index c2229d0..5eaee8c 100644
+index ada7ff7..8484144 100644
 --- a/src/common.h
 +++ b/src/common.h
-@@ -497,7 +497,9 @@ extern char *sys_errlist[];
+@@ -489,7 +489,9 @@ extern char *sys_errlist[];
  #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_MD4
  #include <openssl/md4.h>
  #endif /* !defined(OPENSSL_NO_MD4) */
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ index c2229d0..5eaee8c 100644
 +#endif
  #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_DH
  #include <openssl/dh.h>
- #if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER<0x10100000L
+ #endif /* !defined(OPENSSL_NO_DH) */
 diff --git a/src/protocol.c b/src/protocol.c
-index c390a6f..7aca745 100644
+index cddc381..ae0f374 100644
 --- a/src/protocol.c
 +++ b/src/protocol.c
 @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ NOEXPORT void ldap_client_middle(CLI *);
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ index c390a6f..7aca745 100644
  NOEXPORT void ntlm(CLI *);
  NOEXPORT char *ntlm1(void);
  NOEXPORT char *ntlm3(char *, char *, char *, char *);
-@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ NOEXPORT void connect_client_middle(CLI *c) {
+@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ NOEXPORT void connect_client_middle(CLI *c) {
      fd_printf(c, c->remote_fd.fd, "Host: %s", c->opt->protocol_host);
      if(c->opt->protocol_username && c->opt->protocol_password) {
          if(!strcasecmp(c->opt->protocol_authentication, "ntlm")) {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ index c390a6f..7aca745 100644
              ntlm(c);
  #else
              s_log(LOG_ERR, "NTLM authentication is not available");
-@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ NOEXPORT void connect_client_middle(CLI *c) {
+@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ NOEXPORT void connect_client_middle(CLI *c) {
      str_free(line);
  }
  
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.77.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.78.bb
similarity index 86%
rename from meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.77.bb
rename to meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.78.bb
index 954fa896ba..1740ad41f2 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.77.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.78.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-sta
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.stunnel.org/"
 SECTION = "net"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.md;md5=1e4388407e163ad0cde171362f9a7b94"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.md;md5=df2a0f88c5d5e3ebce922682a7b598ec"
 
 DEPENDS = "autoconf-archive libnsl2 openssl"
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://stunnel.org/archive/5.x/${BP}.tar.gz \
            file://fix-openssl-no-des.patch \
 "
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ec026f4fae4e0d25b940cc7a9451d925e359e7fd59e9edad20baea66ce45f263"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8727e53bb8b7528f850327a2a149158422c02183bc120d1d733cc65b1e2c349d"
 
 inherit autotools bash-completion pkgconfig