diff --git a/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile b/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
index d5df8544338..3eac246a42e 100644
--- a/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
+++ b/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ FEATURES:=usb nand squashfs ramdisk
 CPU_TYPE:=xscale
 MAINTAINER:=Luka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
 
-KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.9
+KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.14
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/target.mk