diff --git a/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-hostname-man.patch b/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.9-hostname-man.patch
similarity index 92%
rename from package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-hostname-man.patch
rename to package/coreutils/coreutils-8.9-hostname-man.patch
index 6025f56eb4..5f8fa1ee26 100644
--- a/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-hostname-man.patch
+++ b/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.9-hostname-man.patch
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 +++ b/man/hostname.1	2010-09-23 12:08:06.000000000 -0700
 @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
 +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.35.
-+.TH HOSTNAME "1" "September 2010" "GNU coreutils 8.5" "User Commands"
++.TH HOSTNAME "1" "January 2011" "GNU coreutils 8.9" "User Commands"
 +.SH NAME
 +hostname \- set or print the name of the current host system
 +.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 +.SH AUTHOR
 +Written by Jim Meyering.
 +.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
-+Report hostname bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
++Report hostname bugs to bug\-coreutils at gnu.org
 +.br
 +GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
 +.br
diff --git a/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-uname.patch b/package/coreutils/coreutils-uname.patch
similarity index 98%
rename from package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-uname.patch
rename to package/coreutils/coreutils-uname.patch
index b458abebab..faa8908815 100644
--- a/package/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-uname.patch
+++ b/package/coreutils/coreutils-uname.patch
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ On linux platforms, grok /proc/cpuinfo for the CPU/vendor info.
 Prob not suitable for upstream seeing as how it's 100% linux-specific
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00063.html
 
-Patch originally by Carlos E. Gorges <carlos@techlinux.com.br>, but 
+Patch originally by Carlos E. Gorges <carlos at techlinux.com.br>, but
 heavily reworked to suck less.
 
 To add support for additional platforms, check out the show_cpuinfo()
diff --git a/package/coreutils/coreutils.mk b/package/coreutils/coreutils.mk
index d934ae8966..fed5e90e3a 100644
--- a/package/coreutils/coreutils.mk
+++ b/package/coreutils/coreutils.mk
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # coreutils
 #
 #############################################################
-COREUTILS_VERSION = 8.5
+COREUTILS_VERSION = 8.9
 COREUTILS_SOURCE = coreutils-$(COREUTILS_VERSION).tar.gz
 COREUTILS_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/coreutils