diff --git a/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.4.2.bb b/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.4.2.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 07927ada1cce7f8dd9e8d39a85fb934ace26436d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.4.2.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "This package is a ROS wrapper for Alvar, an open source AR tag tracking library."
-SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=8;endline=8;md5=f62de161dc7a8f859a0502707b17209e"
-
-DEPENDS = "cmake-modules cv-bridge image-transport libtinyxml pcl-ros resource-retriever roscpp tf visualization-msgs"
-
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/sniekum/${ROS_SPN}.git;protocol=https;branch=hydro-devel"
-# commit df56a7429 is intended to be version 0.4.2
-SRCREV = "df56a742976712a1de7212039de8056c93b39375"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
-inherit catkin
diff --git a/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.5.1.bb b/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.5.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82e6819470e062dc75c3fa0b8f36fc499c57fd60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-ros/ar-track-alvar/ar-track-alvar_0.5.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "This package is a ROS wrapper for Alvar, an open source AR tag tracking library."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=8;endline=8;md5=f62de161dc7a8f859a0502707b17209e"
+
+DEPENDS = "ar-track-alvar-msgs cmake-modules cv-bridge image-transport libtinyxml pcl-ros resource-retriever roscpp tf visualization-msgs"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/sniekum/${ROS_SPN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=${ROS_SP}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5d55aaf9098c1b803f9ed93e3c5fbacd"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b8c1c28afaf16c03f37067ae2653f5df7d0a15fdb75a27c0a2f4da9c2f89d92e"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${ROS_SP}"
+
+inherit catkin