diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
index 60c950476c..cbf1ef2afb 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59332343/
-sha256  efe01690d22bda359a579c77e2b0072658a092bff490ec0478a212c6b7d0eb70  fetchmail-6.6.4.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59347909/
+sha256  ab0320fe4df0b5ee8659189e66590d9de96aadbf929fe59f353ae7a317e9ef1e  fetchmail-6.6.5.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  48aea24325e55932dbd79b30f558b9c87a416d675fe5f94445e8be5cb6606fde  COPYING
diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
index d021c2c7bd..9b3c035844 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.6
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).4
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).5
 FETCHMAIL_SOURCE = fetchmail-$(FETCHMAIL_VERSION).tar.xz
 FETCHMAIL_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_$(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR)
 FETCHMAIL_LICENSE = GPL-2.0; some exceptions are mentioned in COPYING