diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.hash b/package/qemu/qemu.hash
index 15962af4b5..4f7983f607 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.hash
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally computed, tarball verified with GPG signature
-sha256 4617154c6ef744b83e10b744e392ad111dd351d435d6563ce24d8da75b1335a0 qemu-2.2.1.tar.bz2
+sha256 b6bab7f763d5be73e7cb5ee7d4c8365b7a8df2972c52fa5ded18893bd8281588 qemu-2.3.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.mk b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
index decfc259d2..d565c88bcd 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.mk
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-QEMU_VERSION = 2.2.1
+QEMU_VERSION = 2.3.0
 QEMU_SOURCE = qemu-$(QEMU_VERSION).tar.bz2
 QEMU_SITE = http://wiki.qemu.org/download
 QEMU_LICENSE = GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 MIT BSD-3c BSD-2c Others/BSD-1c