diff --git a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
index f41e7b566d..789612a38b 100644
--- a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=x265
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3}
-REVISION=${REVISION:-3037c1448549}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4}
+REVISION=${REVISION:-e7a4dd48293b}
 SRCNAM=multicoreware
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
diff --git a/multimedia/x265/x265.info b/multimedia/x265/x265.info
index e59d5f56a8..d5061f6290 100644
--- a/multimedia/x265/x265.info
+++ b/multimedia/x265/x265.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="x265"
-VERSION="2.3"
+VERSION="2.4"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html"
-DOWNLOAD="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/2.3.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="e1209d4ddcf6ef5148f930f94ba6811f"
+DOWNLOAD="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/2.4.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="54a5c2a217dffbdaeea6ef200db169c6"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""