diff --git a/ports/cppzmq/CONTROL b/ports/cppzmq/CONTROL
index bbf80d29a4..39928046dc 100644
--- a/ports/cppzmq/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/cppzmq/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: cppzmq
-Version: 4.2.1
+Version: 4.2.2
 Build-Depends: zeromq
 Description: lightweight messaging kernel, C++ bindings
diff --git a/ports/cppzmq/portfile.cmake b/ports/cppzmq/portfile.cmake
index fdfc86257d..4f0701c590 100644
--- a/ports/cppzmq/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/cppzmq/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 #header-only library
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/cppzmq-4.2.1)
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq/archive/v4.2.1.zip"
-    FILENAME "cppzmq-4.2.1.zip"
-    SHA512 ee75ce4bd28ecb5ef660d1ed6f5522654eced6ded8745dc0c61df351f4ff0ff8980d1bd848b2649fcce4aa539a457e56e55b0a59cb49f44b0a29875d0ea28dce
+
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO zeromq/cppzmq
+    REF v4.2.2
+    SHA512 5f61ea4a16987c1363c3029cf46b3e83ddd86d65e8d639b0332d691f8fdb5cee121b5d72a9b8c89221daf52ea5892219e0bc4ea4e761bb1e7deb1659011dd3c9
+    HEAD_REF master
 )
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
 # cppzmq is a single header library, so we just need to copy that file in the include directory
 file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/zmq.hpp DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include)