diff --git a/packages/tvheadend/build.sh b/packages/tvheadend/build.sh
index 6f3b2f18ad..c08ebc31a4 100644
--- a/packages/tvheadend/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tvheadend/build.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=4.2.8
 TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=10
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL="https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=1aef889373d5fad2a7bd2f139156d4d5e34a64b6d38b87b868a2df415f01f7ad
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
+TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_TAG_TYPE="newest-tag"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="dbus, libandroid-execinfo, libdvbcsa, libiconv, openssl, tvheadend-data, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true