diff --git a/package/unionfs/Config.in b/package/unionfs/Config.in
index fe03b95f20..41210c2039 100644
--- a/package/unionfs/Config.in
+++ b/package/unionfs/Config.in
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_UNIONFS
 	bool "unionfs (FUSE)"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libfuse
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libfuse
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # libfuse
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libfuse, libfuse3
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libfuse, libfuse3
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # libfuse, libfuse3
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE3 if !BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE
 	help
 	  A userspace unionfs implementation.
 
diff --git a/package/unionfs/unionfs.hash b/package/unionfs/unionfs.hash
index 7c4a9f4ffb..7ec654591d 100644
--- a/package/unionfs/unionfs.hash
+++ b/package/unionfs/unionfs.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  f56a5579d670e18e0667700bc599acbc0b8217ca1f76b2adb3dad7d2953c4049  LICENSE
-sha256  c705072a33a18cbc73ffe799331d43410b6deef5d6f2042038f8fd3ab17b6e2e  unionfs-2.1.tar.gz
+sha256  026f5302279110ceb7465e5c9e863cd0319ea0dc32ad253d162cf9db0f5e9a81  unionfs-3.7.tar.gz
+sha256  b03db54bff4b5ff9d1b4c7ef54513e52afaa32830f36a6da6db8c0fcd35a4431  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/unionfs/unionfs.mk b/package/unionfs/unionfs.mk
index 12cd368fe3..4909d80a70 100644
--- a/package/unionfs/unionfs.mk
+++ b/package/unionfs/unionfs.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,18 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-UNIONFS_VERSION = 2.1
+UNIONFS_VERSION = 3.7
 UNIONFS_SITE = $(call github,rpodgorny,unionfs-fuse,v$(UNIONFS_VERSION))
-UNIONFS_DEPENDENCIES = libfuse host-pkgconf
+UNIONFS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 UNIONFS_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 UNIONFS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE3),y)
+UNIONFS_CONF_OPTS += -DWITH_LIBFUSE3=TRUE
+UNIONFS_DEPENDENCIES += libfuse3
+else
+UNIONFS_CONF_OPTS += -DWITH_LIBFUSE3=FALSE
+UNIONFS_DEPENDENCIES += libfuse
+endif
+
 $(eval $(cmake-package))