diff --git a/academic/umfpack/patches/autoconfiscate.diff b/academic/umfpack/patches/autoconfiscate.diff
index 43f3515299..b902c15281 100644
--- a/academic/umfpack/patches/autoconfiscate.diff
+++ b/academic/umfpack/patches/autoconfiscate.diff
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ new file mode 100644
 +# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 +
 +AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-+AC_INIT([UMFPACK],[5.7.8],[DrTimothyAldenDavis@gmail.com],[umfpack],[http://www.suitesparse.com/])
++AC_INIT([UMFPACK],[5.7.9],[https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse],[umfpack],[http://www.suitesparse.com/])
 +AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Source/umfpack_solve.c])
 +AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 +AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
diff --git a/academic/umfpack/umfpack.SlackBuild b/academic/umfpack/umfpack.SlackBuild
index 82a4eb2bb3..c87f06711a 100644
--- a/academic/umfpack/umfpack.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/umfpack/umfpack.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for UMFPACK
 
-# Copyright 2013-2019 Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>
+# Copyright 2013-2020 Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 PRGNAM=umfpack
 SRCNAM=SuiteSparse
 SUBDIR=UMFPACK
-VERSION=${VERSION:-5.7.8}
-SRCVER=${SRCVER:-5.4.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.7.9}
+SRCVER=${SRCVER:-5.6.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $SRCNAM
-tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$SRCVER.tar.gz $SRCNAM/$SUBDIR
-cd $SRCNAM/$SUBDIR
+rm -rf $SRCNAM-$SRCVER
+tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$SRCVER.tar.gz $SRCNAM-$SRCVER/$SUBDIR
+cd $SRCNAM-$SRCVER/$SUBDIR
 chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R u+w,go-w,a+rX-st .
 
diff --git a/academic/umfpack/umfpack.info b/academic/umfpack/umfpack.info
index 7db842bf5e..283dfdc4cb 100644
--- a/academic/umfpack/umfpack.info
+++ b/academic/umfpack/umfpack.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="umfpack"
-VERSION="5.7.8"
+VERSION="5.7.9"
 HOMEPAGE="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-5.4.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="4a6d4e74fc44c503f52996ae95cad03a"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/archive/v5.6.0/SuiteSparse-5.6.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="af8b97cbded4cd5c6672e878bc0c37c2"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="blas suitesparseconfig amd cholmod"