diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5e55eba218..a461864b12 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
-Version: 1.42.7
+Version: 1.42.8
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
     person("Abhraneel", "Sarma", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 38ee44cbdc..89a19bda33 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.43
 
+## NEW FEATURES
+
+- Progress bar includes the chunk location (`chunk-name @ file:line`) when `options(knitr.progress.linenums = TRUE)` is set (thanks, @zeehio, #2232).
+
 ## BUG FIXES
 
 - The chunk option `collapse = TRUE` works with HTML widgets now (thanks, @dmurdoch, #2212).
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 8ae830a684..77bc556769 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -1115,6 +1115,15 @@ str_split = function(x, split, ...) {
 # default progress bar function in knitr: create a text progress bar, and return
 # methods to update/close it
 txt_pb = function(total, labels) {
+  if (getOption('knitr.progress.linenums', FALSE)) {
+    nums = sapply(seq_along(labels), function(i) {
+      paste(current_lines(i), collapse = '-')
+    })
+    labels = sprintf(
+      '%s%s%s:%s', labels, ifelse(labels == '', '', ' @ '),
+      knit_concord$get('infile'), nums
+    )
+  }
   s = ifelse(labels == '', '', sprintf(' [%s]', labels))  # chunk labels in []
   w = nchar(s)  # widths of labels
   n = max(w)