diff --git a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear-0.49/configure.patch b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear-0.52/configure.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear-0.49/configure.patch
rename to meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear-0.52/configure.patch
diff --git a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear.inc b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear.inc
index 7f5dbe356b..1d78d5c59b 100644
--- a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear.inc
+++ b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Dropbear is a lightweight SSH and SCP Implementation"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
+
+# some files are from other projects and have others license terms:
+#   public domain, OpenSSH 3.5p1, OpenSSH3.6.1p2, PuTTY
 LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3a5b0c2f0d0c49dfde9558ae2036683c"
+
 DEPENDS = "zlib"
 PROVIDES = "ssh sshd"
 RPROVIDES = "ssh sshd"
diff --git a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/allow-nopw.patch b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/allow-nopw.patch
index 1a709b8da0..2ae361c63e 100644
--- a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/allow-nopw.patch
+++ b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/allow-nopw.patch
@@ -1,33 +1,34 @@
-diff -Nurd dropbear-0.45/svr-auth.c dropbear-0.45.patched/svr-auth.c
---- dropbear-0.45/svr-auth.c	2005-03-06 20:27:02.000000000 -0800
-+++ dropbear-0.45.patched/svr-auth.c	2005-03-08 15:22:43.998592744 -0800
-@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@
+diff --git a/svr-auth.c b/svr-auth.c
+index 5da0aa7..4de4964 100644
+--- a/svr-auth.c
++++ b/svr-auth.c
+@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ static int checkusername(unsigned char *username, unsigned int userlen) {
  	}
  
  	/* check for an empty password */
 +#ifdef DISALLOW_EMPTY_PW
- 	if (ses.authstate.pw->pw_passwd[0] == '\0') {
+ 	if (ses.authstate.pw_passwd[0] == '\0') {
  		TRACE(("leave checkusername: empty pword"))
  		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING, "user '%s' has blank password, rejected",
-@@ -244,7 +245,7 @@
+@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ static int checkusername(unsigned char *username, unsigned int userlen) {
  		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
  		return DROPBEAR_FAILURE;
  	}
--
 +#endif
- 	TRACE(("shell is %s", ses.authstate.pw->pw_shell))
  
- 	/* check that the shell is set */
-diff -Nurd dropbear-0.45/svr-authpasswd.c dropbear-0.45.patched/svr-authpasswd.c
---- dropbear-0.45/svr-authpasswd.c	2005-03-06 20:27:02.000000000 -0800
-+++ dropbear-0.45.patched/svr-authpasswd.c	2005-03-08 15:22:44.010591023 -0800
-@@ -64,9 +64,13 @@
+ 	TRACE(("shell is %s", ses.authstate.pw_shell))
+ 
+diff --git a/svr-authpasswd.c b/svr-authpasswd.c
+index 53550a2..7b896bd 100644
+--- a/svr-authpasswd.c
++++ b/svr-authpasswd.c
+@@ -64,9 +64,13 @@ void svr_auth_password() {
  	 * since the shadow password may differ to that tested
  	 * in auth.c */
  	if (passwdcrypt[0] == '\0') {
 +#ifdef DISALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWD
  		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING, "user '%s' has blank password, rejected",
- 				ses.authstate.printableuser);
+ 				ses.authstate.pw_name);
  		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
 +#else
 +		send_msg_userauth_success();
diff --git a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/urandom-xauth-changes-to-options.h.patch b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/urandom-xauth-changes-to-options.h.patch
index e2b1dd5da5..75ba306565 100644
--- a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/urandom-xauth-changes-to-options.h.patch
+++ b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear/urandom-xauth-changes-to-options.h.patch
@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 diff -Nurd dropbear-0.45/options.h dropbear-0.45.patched/options.h
 --- dropbear-0.45/options.h	2005-03-06 20:27:02.000000000 -0800
 +++ dropbear-0.45.patched/options.h	2005-03-08 15:25:09.368742090 -0800
-@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
-  * however significantly reduce the security of your ssh connections
-  * if the PRNG state becomes guessable - make sure you know what you are
-  * doing if you change this. */
--#define DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV "/dev/random"
-+#define DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV "/dev/urandom"
- 
- /* prngd must be manually set up to produce output */
- /*#define DROPBEAR_PRNGD_SOCKET "/var/run/dropbear-rng"*/
 @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
  /* The command to invoke for xauth when using X11 forwarding.
   * "-q" for quiet */
diff --git a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.49.bb b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.52.bb
similarity index 73%
rename from meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.49.bb
rename to meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.52.bb
index 929eeb8174..51217ea39d 100644
--- a/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.49.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/dropbear/dropbear_0.52.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 require dropbear.inc
 
-PR="r2"
+PR="r0"