diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.28.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.29.0.bb
similarity index 84%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.28.1.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.29.0.bb
index bfb46a54bc5..80a9a1b693c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.28.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/c-ares/c-ares_1.29.0.bb
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2014 LG Electronics, Inc.
 SUMMARY = "c-ares is a C library that resolves names asynchronously."
-HOMEPAGE = "http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://c-ares.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=fdbc58a6da11a9f68aa73c453818decc"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/download/cares-1_28_1/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/download/cares-1_29_0/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://run-ptest"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "675a69fc54ddbf42e6830bc671eeb6cd89eeca43828eb413243fd2c0a760809d"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0b89fa425b825c4c7bc708494f374ae69340e4d1fdc64523bdbb2750bfc02ea7"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'tests', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = ""