diff --git a/meta/conf/sanity.conf b/meta/conf/sanity.conf
index 68d4523afc..2ac5ae3623 100644
--- a/meta/conf/sanity.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/sanity.conf
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ BB_MIN_VERSION = "1.51.0"
 SANITY_ABIFILE = "${TMPDIR}/abi_version"
 
 SANITY_VERSION ?= "1"
-LOCALCONF_VERSION  ?= "1"
+LOCALCONF_VERSION  ?= "2"
 LAYER_CONF_VERSION ?= "7"
 SITE_CONF_VERSION  ?= "1"