diff --git a/package/log4cxx/Config.in b/package/log4cxx/Config.in
index 27a5f06988..d9daf27eb6 100644
--- a/package/log4cxx/Config.in
+++ b/package/log4cxx/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LOG4CXX
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # mbsinit
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # apr
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # boost
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_ALWAYS_LOCKFREE_ATOMIC_INTS || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # boost-thread
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LOG4CXX
 
 	  https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/
 
-comment "log4cxx needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library"
+comment "log4cxx needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library, wchar"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+		BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 
 comment "log4cxx needs a toolchain w/ wchar or gcc >= 7"
diff --git a/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.hash b/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.hash
index 728d49ee38..d9e9af18cf 100644
--- a/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.hash
+++ b/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://www.apache.org/dist/logging/log4cxx/1.1.0/apache-log4cxx-1.1.0.tar.gz.sha512
-sha512  66a66eab933a6afd0779e3f73f65afa4fb82481208b591fd7c7c86ded805f50abcd9cdf954bdb49e1e7f5198e6c1c4fff8a7e180ff5fff9491f1946e9ba6fe2b  apache-log4cxx-1.1.0.tar.gz
+# From https://downloads.apache.org/logging/log4cxx/1.3.1/apache-log4cxx-1.3.1.tar.gz.sha512
+sha512  0956fd034fd1a98d2e48ed461578c1e85da02d176850a580195b6a60b959feaf402a2743cc84ccb5d467dd924ee46422b8a7b39d2be9ee131e4e275e65ba839c  apache-log4cxx-1.3.1.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  cfc7749b96f63bd31c3c42b5c471bf756814053e847c10f3eb003417bc523d30  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.mk b/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.mk
index 8024c96d46..2d8d57a612 100644
--- a/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.mk
+++ b/package/log4cxx/log4cxx.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LOG4CXX_VERSION = 1.1.0
+LOG4CXX_VERSION = 1.3.1
 LOG4CXX_SITE = https://archive.apache.org/dist/logging/log4cxx/$(LOG4CXX_VERSION)
 LOG4CXX_SOURCE = apache-log4cxx-$(LOG4CXX_VERSION).tar.gz
 LOG4CXX_INSTALL_STAGING = YES