diff --git a/ports/libepoxy/CONTROL b/ports/libepoxy/CONTROL
index 8306c27be5..2f9939ee44 100644
--- a/ports/libepoxy/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libepoxy/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: libepoxy
-Version: 1.4.1-7d58fd3
+Version: 1.4.2
 Description: Epoxy is a library for handling OpenGL function pointer management for you
diff --git a/ports/libepoxy/portfile.cmake b/ports/libepoxy/portfile.cmake
index 7dc76a50d4..27c0737862 100644
--- a/ports/libepoxy/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libepoxy/portfile.cmake
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ if (VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL static)
 endif()
 
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/libepoxy-7d58fd3d47d2d69f2b1b9f08325302e4eeff9ebe)
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/archive/7d58fd3d47d2d69f2b1b9f08325302e4eeff9ebe.zip"
-    FILENAME "libepoxy-7d58fd3d47d2d69f2b1b9f08325302e4eeff9ebe.zip"
-    SHA512 7e97a7832ea136565be92d6f6f0afead2fff9ac7b2999ef9e7865ac18dfbeab354e5a652b1a86e982a323dca9a1446df07821c26d315b7da4ca72b5be7345695)
-
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO anholt/libepoxy
+    REF 1.4.2
+    SHA512 b94e1fe749c63a82f38369ff62b7d0d8cf1c55884159f030dc2919c17daf5811dd71cfd6a663edb38df66ff4ca53120a6a53501568cc8a582f08d4ae82fe9d89
+    HEAD_REF master)
 
 # ensure python is on path - not for meson but some source generation scripts
 vcpkg_find_acquire_program(PYTHON3)
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake
index d6bd34b212..5c8a00ad20 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ function(vcpkg_find_acquire_program VAR)
     set(PROGNAME meson)
     set(REQUIRED_INTERPRETER PYTHON3)
     set(SCRIPTNAME meson.py)
-    set(PATHS ${DOWNLOADS}/tools/meson/meson-0.38.1)
-    set(URL "https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/archive/0.38.1.zip")
-    set(ARCHIVE "meson-0.38.1.zip")
-    set(HASH 89642b1d976af7e29e9ca2b1a378510ce286ebd90a8234e898f3dd9dd7151538fdfc61fba770681605dad843b77b344fee94f992f18328655669d5f603c7fee5)
+    set(PATHS ${DOWNLOADS}/tools/meson/meson-0.40.1)
+    set(URL "https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/archive/0.40.1.zip")
+    set(ARCHIVE "meson-0.40.1.zip")
+    set(HASH 4c1d07f32d527859f762c34de74d31d569573fc833335ab9652ed38d1f9e64b49869e826527c28a6a07cb8e594fd5c647b34aa95e626236a2707f75df0a2d435)
   else()
     message(FATAL "unknown tool ${VAR} -- unable to acquire.")
   endif()