diff --git a/package/bitstream/bitstream.hash b/package/bitstream/bitstream.hash
index bdaf90c012..fb41a40ee1 100644
--- a/package/bitstream/bitstream.hash
+++ b/package/bitstream/bitstream.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# From https://get.videolan.org/bitstream/1.5/bitstream-1.5.tar.bz2.md5
-md5  34630d13332fd1575bcc8531b0a596be  bitstream-1.5.tar.bz2
-# From https://get.videolan.org/bitstream/1.5/bitstream-1.5.tar.bz2.sha256
-sha256  45fc5a5a6e4537a69fa8440821e87b76252135180a3070c631b0b36ce0a3b90a  bitstream-1.5.tar.bz2
+# From https://get.videolan.org/bitstream/1.6/bitstream-1.6.tar.bz2.md5
+md5  3106981310a54d4717cec766a0183f74  bitstream-1.6.tar.bz2
+# From https://get.videolan.org/bitstream/1.6/bitstream-1.6.tar.bz2.sha256
+sha256  dea67a9dca7eda0d72017359c8d649bd5a9d249f9f9a691b8daf739d16798029  bitstream-1.6.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
 sha256  9644a812f9a8377a59acb7092a36ce8882a39743425d9171a8fb84637e2f6e04  COPYING
diff --git a/package/bitstream/bitstream.mk b/package/bitstream/bitstream.mk
index 12124a63d3..44228242ce 100644
--- a/package/bitstream/bitstream.mk
+++ b/package/bitstream/bitstream.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BITSTREAM_VERSION = 1.5
+BITSTREAM_VERSION = 1.6
 BITSTREAM_SOURCE = bitstream-$(BITSTREAM_VERSION).tar.bz2
 BITSTREAM_SITE = https://get.videolan.org/bitstream/$(BITSTREAM_VERSION)
 BITSTREAM_LICENSE = MIT