diff --git a/autoconf.yaml b/autoconf.yaml
index b57047d871c..5353c761479 100644
--- a/autoconf.yaml
+++ b/autoconf.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
   name: autoconf
-  version: 2.71
-  epoch: 2
+  version: "2.72"
+  epoch: 0
   description: "GNU tool for generating configure scripts"
   copyright:
     - license: GPL-3.0-or-later
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pipeline:
   - uses: fetch
     with:
       uri: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${{package.version}}.tar.gz
-      expected-sha256: 431075ad0bf529ef13cb41e9042c542381103e80015686222b8a9d4abef42a1c
+      expected-sha256: afb181a76e1ee72832f6581c0eddf8df032b83e2e0239ef79ebedc4467d92d6e
 
   - runs: |
       M4=/usr/bin/m4 ./configure \