diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-replacement-native_1.25.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-replacement-native_1.26.bb
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-replacement-native_1.25.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-replacement-native_1.26.bb
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
index 6e77051a33..bbed65c2cd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape \
 or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/"
 SECTION = "base"
+PRIORITY = "optional"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/tar/tar-${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.25.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.25.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index cdb6f54bbe..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.25.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-require tar.inc
-
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
-
-PR = "r0"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6e497f861c77bbba2f7da4e10270995b"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f3f6ce41b8e0f327abd05c95990f113ddafbae131e10f79a99728ed46458494b"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.26.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.26.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26fdc4a506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.26.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require tar.inc
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
+
+PR = "r0"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2cee42a2ff4f1cd4f9298eeeb2264519"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5a5369f464502a598e938029c310d4b3abd51e6bb8dfd045663e61c8ea9f6d41"