diff --git a/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.40.4.bb b/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.42.4.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.40.4.bb
rename to meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.42.4.bb
index a5df37637d..9662296399 100644
--- a/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.40.4.bb
+++ b/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.42.4.bb
@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 DEPENDS = "libxml2 glib-2.0 gssdp gupnp gupnp-av gupnp-dlna gstreamer1.0 \
-           gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libgee libsoup-2.4 libmediaart-2.0 \
+           gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libgee libsoup libmediaart-2.0 \
            libunistring sqlite3 intltool-native gst-editing-services"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-playback shared-mime-info"
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "rygel-plugin-media-export"
 
-inherit gnomebase features_check vala gobject-introspection gettext systemd meson
+inherit gnomebase features_check vala gobject-introspection gettext systemd
 
 # gobject-introspection is mandatory for libmediaart-2.0 and cannot be configured
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"
 
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "736d8adbe8615f6cbc8fcfff9845dc985fd10e16629da236b4b52dbedf0a348b"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "6310dfaa2d332b66119b9b020fad6a4bd27d9bc61faf780ca5ca0b62813303f7"
 
 GIR_MESON_ENABLE_FLAG = 'enabled'
 GIR_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = 'disabled'
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ GIR_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = 'disabled'
 EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dengines=gstreamer -Dplugins=${@strip_comma('${RYGEL_PLUGINS}')}"
 PACKAGECONFIG:append = "${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "x11", " gtk+3", "", d)}"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ?= "external mpris ruih media-export gst-launch"
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "external mpris ruih gst-launch"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[external] = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[mpris] = ""
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ RYGEL_PLUGINS:append ="${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'media-export', ',m
 RYGEL_PLUGINS:append ="${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tracker3', ',tracker3', '', d)}"
 RYGEL_PLUGINS:append ="${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'playbin', ',playbin', '', d)}"
 
-LIBV = "2.6"
+LIBV = "2.8"
 
 CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -Wno-error=int-conversion"