diff --git a/package/webp/webp.hash b/package/webp/webp.hash
index 8d80c72711..17b05c8482 100644
--- a/package/webp/webp.hash
+++ b/package/webp/webp.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  7d6fab70cf844bf6769077bd5d7a74893f8ffd4dfb42861745750c63c2a5c92c  libwebp-1.5.0.tar.gz
+sha256  e4ab7009bf0629fd11982d4c2aa83964cf244cffba7347ecd39019a9e38c4564  libwebp-1.6.0.tar.gz
 sha256  5aec868f669e384a22372a4e8a1a6cd7d44c64cd451f960ca69cc170d1e13acf  COPYING
diff --git a/package/webp/webp.mk b/package/webp/webp.mk
index 83d5506c0f..4af3353f66 100644
--- a/package/webp/webp.mk
+++ b/package/webp/webp.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-WEBP_VERSION = 1.5.0
+WEBP_VERSION = 1.6.0
 WEBP_SOURCE = libwebp-$(WEBP_VERSION).tar.gz
 WEBP_SITE = http://downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp
 WEBP_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause