diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf b/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
index 2da86c239..b127a6f24 100644
--- a/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/conf/distro/dey.conf
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ PREFERRED_VERSION_bluez5 ?= "5.65"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "5.15%"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "5.15%"
 
-# Use git recipe for libsoc
-PREFERRED_VERSION_libsoc = "git"
-
 # There's a generic opencl-headers recipe in the thud branch of
 # meta-openembedded, but we should use the package provided by the imx-gpu-viv
 # recipe in case there are NXP-specific changes in it
diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_%.bbappend b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..993181438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2023 Digi International Inc.
+
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:"
+
+SRCREV = "545b354968a9d03008e1e86e14c58e3f8423a20c"
+
+# The meta-openembedded recipe version is 0.8.2 because there have been no new
+# releases/tags on this repo since 2016.
+# This bbappend overrides the SRC_URI to use a more updated version of the code
+# that doesn't correspond to the package latest tagged version.
+SRC_URI:append = " \
+    file://0001-gpio-pwm-add-delay-to-allow-udev-rules-to-complete.patch \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG = "python"
diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bb b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a2fcaaac..000000000
--- a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Digi International Inc.
-
-SUMMARY = "Library for interfacing with common SoC peripherals"
-DESCRIPTION = "libsoc is a C library to interface with common peripherals (gpio, i2c, spi, pwm) \
-               found in SoC (System on Chips) through generic Linux Kernel interfaces."
-
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/jackmitch/libsoc"
-
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=e0bfebea12a718922225ba987b2126a5"
-
-inherit autotools pkgconfig python3-dir
-
-SRCBRANCH ?= "master"
-SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jackmitch/libsoc.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
-BOARD ??= "devboard"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
-
-PACKAGECONFIG[disabledebug] = "--disable-debug,,"
-PACKAGECONFIG[allboardconfigs] = "--with-board-configs,,"
-PACKAGECONFIG[enableboardconfig] = "--enable-board=${BOARD},,"
-PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--enable-python=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/${PYTHON_PN}-native/${PYTHON_PN},,${PYTHON_PN} ${PYTHON_PN}-native"
-
-PACKAGES =+ "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', \
-    '${PYTHON_PN}-libsoc-staticdev ${PYTHON_PN}-libsoc', '', d)}"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libgcc"
-RDEPENDS:${PYTHON_PN}-libsoc = "${PN} ${PYTHON_PN}-ctypes"
-
-FILES:${PYTHON_PN}-libsoc-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*/*.a"
-FILES:${PYTHON_PN}-libsoc += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
-
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bbappend b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index af4dd5459..000000000
--- a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_git.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2017 Digi International Inc.
-
-FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:"
-
-LIBSOC_URI_STASH = "${DIGI_MTK_GIT}/dey/libsoc.git;protocol=ssh"
-LIBSOC_URI_GITHUB = "git://github.com/jackmitch/libsoc.git;protocol=https"
-LIBSOC_URI ?= "${@oe.utils.conditional('DIGI_INTERNAL_GIT', '1' , '${LIBSOC_URI_STASH}', '${LIBSOC_URI_GITHUB}', d)}"
-
-SRCREV = "dc62bb1f04c13d0423078b1af2bb439c62023d6c"
-SRC_URI = " \
-    ${LIBSOC_URI};nobranch=1 \
-    file://0001-gpio-pwm-add-delay-to-allow-udev-rules-to-complete.patch \
-"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG = "python"