diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msgpack/msgpack-cpp_6.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msgpack/msgpack-cpp_6.1.0.bb
index 5f5507bc74..dc866d6d0a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msgpack/msgpack-cpp_6.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msgpack/msgpack-cpp_6.1.0.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://NOTICE;md5=7a858c074723608e08614061dc044352 \
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/releases/download/cpp-${PV}/msgpack-cxx-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "23ede7e93c8efee343ad8c6514c28f3708207e5106af3b3e4969b3a9ed7039e7"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/releases"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}/msgpack-cxx-${PV}"
 
 DEPENDS += "boost"