diff --git a/gsoap-2.8.39.tar.xz b/gsoap-2.8.39.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 62bb9d3..0000000
--- a/gsoap-2.8.39.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:1d39bed0a726f0f703ffd700a5a33053ea0d43806c71526a70f99ac97a60179f
-size 22335540
diff --git a/gsoap-2.8.40.tar.xz b/gsoap-2.8.40.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..701ddd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gsoap-2.8.40.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:a5fe64a0cb0aa57e4dc96d08e6305e7b49f9894035477608b318fa549d695485
+size 21216588
diff --git a/gsoap.changes b/gsoap.changes
index e8d0028..aadc7eb 100644
--- a/gsoap.changes
+++ b/gsoap.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Dec 11 20:29:51 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Update to new upstream release 2.8.40
+* Improved wsdl2h import/include relative path search.
+* Fixed wsdl2h schema import when imports are deeply nested in
+  imports/includes.
+* Fixed MinGW compilation issue.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 21 18:39:11 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/gsoap.spec b/gsoap.spec
index 7c1bbb2..8c40504 100644
--- a/gsoap.spec
+++ b/gsoap.spec
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 
 Name:           gsoap
-%define lname	libgsoap-2_8_39
-Version:        2.8.39
+%define lname	libgsoap-2_8_40
+Version:        2.8.40
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Toolkit for C/C++ server and client web service applications
 License:        SUSE-GPL-2.0+-with-openssl-exception
diff --git a/sanitize_source.sh b/sanitize_source.sh
index 646da32..2e17661 100644
--- a/sanitize_source.sh
+++ b/sanitize_source.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if ! which hardlink >/dev/null; then
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
-version="2.8.39"
+version="2.8.40"
 shortver="2.8" # agh...
 wget -c "http://downloads.sf.net/gsoap2/gsoap_$version.zip"