diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 172cd8171e..66797db02c 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gcc-runtime = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gcc-sanitizers = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gcc-source-12.2.0 = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gconf = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gcr3 = "Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gcr = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gdb = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gdb-cross-${TARGET_ARCH} = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch
rename to meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3/b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch
rename to meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3/b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3_3.40.0.bb
similarity index 87%
rename from meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
rename to meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3_3.40.0.bb
index 917be5938b..5318768db6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr3_3.40.0.bb
@@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
 inherit gnomebase gtk-icon-cache gtk-doc features_check upstream-version-is-even vala gobject-introspection gettext mime mime-xdg
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "[^\d\.](?P<pver>\d+\.(?!9\d+)(\d*[02468])+(\.\d+)+)\.tar"
 
-SRC_URI += "file://0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch \ 
-            file://b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch"
+SRC_URI = " \
+	https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcr/3.40/gcr-${PV}.tar.xz;name=archive \
+	file://0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch \
+	file://b3ca1d02bb0148ca787ac4aead164d7c8ce2c4d8.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "b9d3645a5fd953a54285cc64d4fc046736463dbd4dcc25caf5c7b59bed3027f5"
 
+S = "${WORKDIR}/gcr-${PV}"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
 	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', '', d)} \
 	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wayland', 'gtk', '', d)} \