diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 1381c39cc4..672c110f41 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>July 12th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to audacious and audacious-plugins-4.2.
+          Provides support for ffmpeg-5. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16762">#16762</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Remove ffmpeg support from transcode since
           libavresample has been removed from ffmpeg. This allows building and
diff --git a/multimedia/audioutils/audacious.xml b/multimedia/audioutils/audacious.xml
index 75688be85d..8822af5497 100644
--- a/multimedia/audioutils/audacious.xml
+++ b/multimedia/audioutils/audacious.xml
@@ -7,17 +7,17 @@
   <!ENTITY audacious-download-http
            "https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-&audacious-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY audacious-download-ftp         " ">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-md5sum               "22fbe28b073682d55ee87698f283e195">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-size                 "576 KB">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-md5sum               "3f76597aa1d2ea1501a93456b46d870f">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-size                 "600 KB">
   <!ENTITY audacious-buildsize            "72 MB (with Qt user interface)">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-time                 "0.7 SBU (with Qt user interface)">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-time                 "0.8 SBU (with Qt user interface)">
 
   <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-download
            "https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-plugins-&audacious-plugins-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-md5sum       "740d83757b49b82bc75e256c96b09bfd">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-size         "1.7 MB">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-buildsize    "157 MB (with Qt user interface)">
-  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-time         "1.5 SBU (with Qt user interface)">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-md5sum       "029d1ee500e8941812ddbf65b23988c8">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-size         "1.9 MB">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-buildsize    "171 MB (with Qt user interface)">
+  <!ENTITY audacious-plugins-time         "1.8 SBU (with Qt user interface)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="audacious" xreflabel="Audacious-&audacious-version;">
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index d472181d7d..2d83db154c 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY lame-version                 "3.100">
 <!ENTITY CDParanoia-version           "III-10.2">
 <!--<!ENTITY freetts-version              "1.2.2">-->
-<!ENTITY audacious-version            "4.1">
-<!ENTITY audacious-plugins-version    "4.1">
+<!ENTITY audacious-version            "4.2">
+<!ENTITY audacious-plugins-version    "4.2">
 <!--<!ENTITY amarok-version               "2.8.0">-->
 <!ENTITY pnmixer-version              "0.7.2">