diff --git a/community/opendht/PKGBUILD b/community/opendht/PKGBUILD
index 287ad7a85..5a864211a 100644
--- a/community/opendht/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/opendht/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 pkgname=opendht
 epoch=1
-pkgver=2.4.7.2
+pkgver=2.4.9
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="C++17 Distributed Hash Table (DHT) implementation"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ depends=(glibc gnutls nettle readline argon2 jsoncpp libjsoncpp.so fmt http-pars
 makedepends=(git cmake msgpack-cxx asio restinio cython python-setuptools cppunit)
 optdepends=('python: to use the Python bindings'
             'msgpack-cxx: linking against opendht')
-_commit=4d356b6dcaed3ee0280fc2ef31933dd951b9aba7
+_commit=2c7edb695f4796df77434e2445e3cff9be820c76
 source=(git+${url}#commit=${_commit})
 sha256sums=(SKIP)
 
 pkgver() {
   cd ${pkgname}
-  git describe --tags | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./;s/-/+/'
+  git describe --tags | sed 's/^v//;s/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./;s/-/+/'
 }
 
 build() {