diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
index 99e3ccacac..c1da15a1b3 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ SRC_URI = "https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "37e9a2d664effe4efd44c0e1a20136de"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "99906d9560cbdbc97e1855e7b0a7169f1e11983be3ac539140423f09debced82"
 
+# code.google.com/archive page is generated by javascript from JSON and does not
+# allow devtool to find the latest version
+UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN = "1"
+
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = "null"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
 export WVLINK="${LD}"