diff --git a/dmenu/.md5sum b/dmenu/.md5sum
index 0532ee8c9..1dc858a23 100644
--- a/dmenu/.md5sum
+++ b/dmenu/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-36d546dd4ac21660b20cdb056f5cb341  dmenu-3.9.tar.gz
+66e761a653930cc8a21614ba9fedf903  dmenu-4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/dmenu/Pkgfile b/dmenu/Pkgfile
index 6a825be34..15aa9e24c 100644
--- a/dmenu/Pkgfile
+++ b/dmenu/Pkgfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Depends on:  xorg-libxinerama
 
 name=dmenu
-version=3.9
+version=4.0
 release=1
 source=(http://code.suckless.org/dl/tools/$name-$version.tar.gz)