diff --git a/system/devel/binutils/pspec.xml b/system/devel/binutils/pspec.xml
index a65d3f25..aeb14b0d 100644
--- a/system/devel/binutils/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/devel/binutils/pspec.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@
         <IsA>app:console</IsA>
         <Summary>Assembler and linker tools</Summary>
         <Description>Contains commands like as, ld, nm, objdump, ar, ranlib for compiling assembly code to the machine language, and for linking and manipulating the binary object files.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="021c97cc0e751e989afb8db025fbd2ae48391831" type="tarxz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.36.1.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="fee4fbef9d632afc1988dd631d7f75d4394b7f8d" type="tarxz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.40.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>texinfo</Dependency>
+        </BuildDependencies>
         <Patches>
         </Patches>
     </Source>
@@ -22,6 +25,7 @@
             <Dependency>zlib</Dependency>
         </RuntimeDependencies>
         <Files>
+            <Path fileType="config">/etc</Path>
             <Path fileType="executable">/usr/bin</Path>
             <Path fileType="library">/usr/lib</Path>
             <Path fileType="header">/usr/include</Path>
@@ -31,6 +35,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="12">
+            <Date>2023-01-28</Date>
+            <Version>2.40</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="11">
             <Date>2022-07-18</Date>
             <Version>2.36.1</Version>