diff --git a/develop/libevent/libevent.desc b/develop/libevent/libevent.desc
index 206198f54..76eac9c21 100644
--- a/develop/libevent/libevent.desc
+++ b/develop/libevent/libevent.desc
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 
 [L] BSD
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.3e
+[V] 1.4.0
 [P] X -?---5---9 144.000
 
-[D] 3570262696 libevent-1.3e.tar.gz http://www.monkey.org/~provos/
+[D] 2557470631 libevent-1.4.0.tar.gz http://www.monkey.org/~provos/