diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0350a0e7d..baee2f626 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 	Kconfig infrastructure rebased against 2.6.36-rc1, bringing
 	misc fixes + nconfig and savedefconfig targets.
 
-	Updated/fixed packages: busybox, dropbear, kismet, openvpn
+	Updated/fixed packages: busybox, dropbear, iptables, kismet,
+	openvpn
 
 2010.08: Released August 31th, 2010:
 
diff --git a/package/iptables/iptables.mk b/package/iptables/iptables.mk
index 8e2ebc440..0b7dae181 100644
--- a/package/iptables/iptables.mk
+++ b/package/iptables/iptables.mk
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # iptables
 #
 #############################################################
-IPTABLES_VERSION = 1.4.8
+IPTABLES_VERSION = 1.4.9.1
 IPTABLES_SOURCE = iptables-$(IPTABLES_VERSION).tar.bz2
 IPTABLES_SITE = http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/iptables
 IPTABLES_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkg-config