diff --git a/package/font-awesome/Config.in b/package/font-awesome/Config.in
index 694d74e5a8..40cadaf433 100644
--- a/package/font-awesome/Config.in
+++ b/package/font-awesome/Config.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_FONT_AWESOME
 	bool "font-awesome"
 	help
-	  Font Awesome is a full suite of 605 pictographic icons for
-	  easy scalable vector graphics on websites.
+	  Font Awesome is a full suite of thousands of pictographic
+	  icons for easy scalable vector graphics on websites.
 
 	  https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
diff --git a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.hash b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.hash
index 89bc411f66..29c64cd40f 100644
--- a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.hash
+++ b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  de512ba0e1dead382bbfce372cde74b3f18971d876fffb635ee9333f0db05d43  font-awesome-4.7.0.tar.gz
+sha256  8f433b74d3d4bbba2a6374a0a0ddf53be8e127809341e4c2578719229b43903a  font-awesome-7.2.0.tar.gz
+sha256  20c6f40715a567c97b80f6944beb8bb325835cab47ea7dcab89ee3b8e077eced  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
index 5211ac22a5..2b1de910ce 100644
--- a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
+++ b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FONT_AWESOME_VERSION = 4.7.0
-FONT_AWESOME_SITE = $(call github,FortAwesome,Font-Awesome,v$(FONT_AWESOME_VERSION))
-FONT_AWESOME_LICENSE = OFL-1.1 (font), MIT (CSS, LESS and Sass files)
-FONT_AWESOME_DIRECTORIES_LIST = css fonts less scss
+FONT_AWESOME_VERSION = 7.2.0
+FONT_AWESOME_SITE = $(call github,FortAwesome,Font-Awesome,$(FONT_AWESOME_VERSION))
+FONT_AWESOME_LICENSE = OFL-1.1 (fonts), MIT (code), CC-BY-4.0 (icons)
+FONT_AWESOME_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
+FONT_AWESOME_DIRECTORIES_LIST = css js scss webfonts sprites svgs
 
 define FONT_AWESOME_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/font-awesome/