diff --git a/package/public/octave/octave.conf b/package/public/octave/octave.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87a004b20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/public/octave/octave.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+var_append LDFLAGS " " "-pthread"
+export LDFLAGS
diff --git a/package/public/octave/octave.desc b/package/public/octave/octave.desc
index df4bfe249..98a3f8db9 100644
--- a/package/public/octave/octave.desc
+++ b/package/public/octave/octave.desc
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 3.0.0
+[V] 3.1.54
 [P] X --?--5---9 256.400
 
-[D] 3133547790 octave-3.0.0.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/
+[D] 401912049 octave-3.1.54.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/