diff --git a/libs/libdht/Makefile b/libs/libdht/Makefile
index 692960072c38f6..718732aff76b41 100644
--- a/libs/libdht/Makefile
+++ b/libs/libdht/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=libdht
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_RELEASE:=3
 
 PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/jech/dht
@@ -10,33 +10,44 @@ PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=0bbb8f4a5bd914b60de5e9fbb51573aa33a1cf18
 PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=4a24bd406dd0ac9e69d75f062b45bc0d660f1f8bed9672afc35a7afe4b13acf4
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
-PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENCE
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
 
+# Upstream ships a plain Makefile that builds only a test binary, so the
+# shared object is built here -- and given a soname, since a bare libdht.so
+# leaves no way to express an ABI break. jech/dht offers no ABI guarantee of
+# its own, so this is a packaged ABI epoch: bump PKG_ABI_VERSION if the
+# exported surface changes.
+PKG_ABI_VERSION:=0
+
 define Package/libdht
   SECTION:=libs
   CATEGORY:=Libraries
   TITLE:=Kademlia Distributed Hash Table (DHT) library
   DEPENDS:= +USE_GLIBC:libcrypt-compat
+  ABI_VERSION:=$(PKG_ABI_VERSION)
 endef
 
 define Build/InstallDev
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/include/dht $(1)/usr/lib
 	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.h $(1)/usr/include/dht
-	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so $(1)/usr/lib/
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so* $(1)/usr/lib/
 endef
 
 define Package/libdht/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
-	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so $(1)/usr/lib/
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so.$(PKG_ABI_VERSION) $(1)/usr/lib/
 endef
 
 define Build/Compile
-	$(TARGET_CC) $(FPIC) -Wall -c -o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.c
-	$(TARGET_CC) -shared -lcrypt -o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.o
+	$(TARGET_CC) $(FPIC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(TARGET_CPPFLAGS) -Wall \
+		-c -o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.c
+	$(TARGET_CC) $(TARGET_LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname,libdht.so.$(PKG_ABI_VERSION) \
+		-o $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so.$(PKG_ABI_VERSION) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/dht.o -lcrypt
+	ln -sf libdht.so.$(PKG_ABI_VERSION) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdht.so
 endef
 
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libdht))
diff --git a/net/transmission/Makefile b/net/transmission/Makefile
index a2e17a992cec87..df5ebd3ef54da4 100644
--- a/net/transmission/Makefile
+++ b/net/transmission/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=transmission
 PKG_VERSION:=4.1.3
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/download/$(PKG_VERSION)/