diff --git a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm.inc b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm.inc
index 80f4f54..19993b9 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm.inc
+++ b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm.inc
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ DEPENDS += "ninja-native rust-llvm-native"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4t = "arm"
 
-LLVM_RELEASE = "6.0"
 LLVM_DIR = "llvm${LLVM_RELEASE}"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.49.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.49.0.bb
index 1dca22b..5ce2fc7 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.49.0.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.49.0.bb
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+LLVM_RELEASE = "11.0.0"
 require rust-source-${PV}.inc
 require rust-llvm.inc
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.51.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.51.0.bb
index 1dca22b..7436af1 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.51.0.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/rust/rust-llvm_1.51.0.bb
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
+# check src/llvm-project/llvm/CMakeLists.txt for llvm version in use
+#
+LLVM_RELEASE = "11.0.1"
 require rust-source-${PV}.inc
 require rust-llvm.inc