diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/Makefile.am b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/Makefile.am
index 7338df03eb..d12d3a45e4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/Makefile.am
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES = libbz2.la
-libbz2_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:6:0
+libbz2_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:8:0
 
 libbz2_la_SOURCES = blocksort.c  \
                     huffman.c    \