diff --git a/board/qemu/arm-vexpress-tz/u-boot.config b/board/qemu/arm-vexpress-tz/u-boot.config
index 48b1d06fdb..8633ea18d0 100644
--- a/board/qemu/arm-vexpress-tz/u-boot.config
+++ b/board/qemu/arm-vexpress-tz/u-boot.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x60000000
-CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="smhload zImage ${kernel_addr_r} && smhload rootfs.cpio.uboot ${ramdisk_addr_r} && setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0,115200 earlyprintk=serial,ttyAMA0,115200 && bootz ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${fdt_addr}"
+CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="load hostfs - ${kernel_addr_r} zImage && load hostfs - ${ramdisk_addr_r} rootfs.cpio.uboot  && setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0,115200 earlyprintk=serial,ttyAMA0,115200 && bootz ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${fdt_addr}"
 CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING=y
 # Drop flash accesses
 CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH=n
diff --git a/board/qemu/patches/uboot/uboot.hash b/board/qemu/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
index 7762ff3f8f..594d7ebeae 100644
--- a/board/qemu/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
+++ b/board/qemu/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  68e065413926778e276ec3abd28bb32fa82abaa4a6898d570c1f48fbdb08bcd0  u-boot-2022.04.tar.bz2
 sha256  b99611f1ed237bf3541bdc8434b68c96a6e05967061f992443cb30aabebef5b3  u-boot-2024.01.tar.bz2
+sha256  ac7c04b8b7004923b00a4e5d6699c5df4d21233bac9fda690d8cfbc209fff2fd  u-boot-2026.04.tar.bz2
diff --git a/configs/qemu_arm_vexpress_tz_defconfig b/configs/qemu_arm_vexpress_tz_defconfig
index 48273cdf5a..84dca264da 100644
--- a/configs/qemu_arm_vexpress_tz_defconfig
+++ b/configs/qemu_arm_vexpress_tz_defconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV3D16=y
 BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
 BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN=y
 BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN_ARMV7_EABIHF_GLIBC_STABLE=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
 BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/qemu/patches"
 BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
 BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyAMA0"
@@ -24,8 +23,7 @@ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_GZIP=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE=y
 # BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE=y
-BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="v2.7"
+BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_LATEST_LTS_2_12_VERSION=y
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_PLATFORM="qemu"
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_FIP=y
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_BL32_OPTEE=y
@@ -37,8 +35,9 @@ BR2_TARGET_OPTEE_OS_PLATFORM="vexpress-qemu_virt"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2022.04"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2026.04"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="qemu_arm"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES="board/qemu/arm-vexpress-tz/u-boot.config"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU_SYSTEM_MODE=y