diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libpaper/libpaper_2.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libpaper/libpaper_2.1.2.bb
index a45ffe1849..9369d28372 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libpaper/libpaper_2.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libpaper/libpaper_2.1.2.bb
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper/releases/download/v${PV}/libpaper-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1fda0cf64efa46b9684a4ccc17df4386c4cc83254805419222c064bf62ea001f"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper/releases"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
 inherit perlnative autotools
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"