diff --git a/package/liburcu/liburcu.hash b/package/liburcu/liburcu.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2b1693d8d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/liburcu/liburcu.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# http://www.lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-0.8.6.tar.bz2.sha1
+sha1  f10e9bf812557cd0c2a35a277e04010ec278d25d  userspace-rcu-0.8.6.tar.bz2
+# Locally generated
+sha256 b1a5d3bce014ba7a702759bc60b692c1cd46ff0e8a5b53f0d0a95e22db74ab21 userspace-rcu-0.8.6.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/liburcu/liburcu.mk b/package/liburcu/liburcu.mk
index c48f659d75..1582d07a1b 100644
--- a/package/liburcu/liburcu.mk
+++ b/package/liburcu/liburcu.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBURCU_VERSION = 0.8.4
+LIBURCU_VERSION = 0.8.6
 LIBURCU_SITE = http://lttng.org/files/urcu
 LIBURCU_SOURCE = userspace-rcu-$(LIBURCU_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBURCU_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+ for the library; MIT-like license for few source files listed in LICENSE; GPLv2+ for test; GPLv3 for few *.m4 files