diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libtiff/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libtiff/package.py
index 08682ac62d..0876b0fc23 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libtiff/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libtiff/package.py
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@
 
 
 class Libtiff(AutotoolsPackage):
-    """libtiff graphics format library"""
-    homepage = "http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/"
-    url      = "http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.8.tar.gz"
+    """LibTIFF - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) Library and Utilities."""
 
+    homepage = "http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/"
+    url      = "http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.9.tar.gz"
+
+    version('4.0.9', '54bad211279cc93eb4fca31ba9bfdc79')
     version('4.0.8', '2a7d1c1318416ddf36d5f6fa4600069b')
     version('4.0.7', '77ae928d2c6b7fb46a21c3a29325157b')
     version('4.0.6', 'd1d2e940dea0b5ad435f21f03d96dd72')