diff --git a/system/b2/README b/system/b2/README
index b245aa0dd0..68586adab5 100644
--- a/system/b2/README
+++ b/system/b2/README
@@ -2,3 +2,14 @@ b2 is a cross-platform BBC Micro emulator. Use your Windows/Linux PC or
 macOS computer to play your old BBC games or develop new BBC software.
 
 more info at https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2
+
+Note: the maintainer is hosting the source in its github account
+due to the many submodules b2 is using.
+If in doubt please prepare the source package yourself with these
+commands: for example, for TAG=b2-20240720-010024-9f95270
+
+git clone --recursive --branch $TAG https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2.git
+rm -rf b2/.git
+mv b2 $TAG
+tar cvfz $TAG.tar.gz $TAG
+rm -rf $TAG
diff --git a/system/b2/b2.SlackBuild b/system/b2/b2.SlackBuild
index 76c19e9352..bd75bfb60d 100644
--- a/system/b2/b2.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/b2/b2.SlackBuild
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=b2
-VERSION=${VERSION:-20240710_232859_844adac}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-20240720_010024_9f95270}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
-TARBALL=${TARBALL:-b2-20240710-232859-844adac}
+TARBALL=${TARBALL:-b2-20240720-010024-9f95270}
 
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
diff --git a/system/b2/b2.info b/system/b2/b2.info
index 83f59d8b12..9739040acc 100644
--- a/system/b2/b2.info
+++ b/system/b2/b2.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="b2"
-VERSION="20240710_232859_844adac"
+VERSION="20240720_010024_9f95270"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/antonioleal/myslackbuilds/raw/main/system/b2/b2-20240710-232859-844adac.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="9e797d6233dcb7eb31a90f24d81b7b9e"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/antonioleal/myslackbuilds/raw/main/system/b2/b2-20240720-010024-9f95270.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="0053a45e69986d76039739c830928e5a"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="uuid"