diff --git a/srcpkgs/curl/libcurl.template b/srcpkgs/curl/libcurl.template
index c40f89b968d..08f8a6e7639 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/curl/libcurl.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/curl/libcurl.template
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Template file for 'libcurl'.
 #
-revision=1
 short_desc="The multiprotocol file transfer library"
 long_desc="
  libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library,
diff --git a/srcpkgs/curl/template b/srcpkgs/curl/template
index 776a54d32aa..fad4f94f54e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/curl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/curl/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template build file for 'curl'.
 pkgname=curl
-version=7.23.1
+version=7.24.0
 homepage="http://curl.haxx.se"
 distfiles="$homepage/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu-configure
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ configure_args="--enable-ldaps --with-gssapi=/usr
 short_desc="Client that groks URLs"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
-checksum=7d8c8cef8f244118245c37853cb175bd95c156ff453730ec2c88189b05a7c06e
+checksum=ebdb111088ff8b0e05b1d1b075e9f1608285e8105cc51e21caacf33d01812c16
 long_desc="
  Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting
  FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports