diff --git a/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild b/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
index e93678ed04..c198aca16b 100644
--- a/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=qemu
-VERSION=${VERSION:-7.2.0}
-SRCVER=$(echo $VERSION | tr _ - )
+VERSION=${VERSION:-7.2.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -84,9 +83,9 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $PRGNAM-$SRCVER
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$SRCVER.tar.xz
-cd $PRGNAM-$SRCVER
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
diff --git a/system/qemu/qemu.info b/system/qemu/qemu.info
index e10d846620..cab62c9ead 100644
--- a/system/qemu/qemu.info
+++ b/system/qemu/qemu.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="qemu"
-VERSION="7.2.0"
+VERSION="7.2.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.qemu.org"
-DOWNLOAD="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-7.2.0.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="7630d6a9eba7ab2bcb9979d6d24c2697"
+DOWNLOAD="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-7.2.1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="48ec3eadc151f0eceb641c0c7a13374c"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""