diff --git a/package/dbus/dbus.hash b/package/dbus/dbus.hash
index a06ba50ccd..3e4ee0d3e8 100644
--- a/package/dbus/dbus.hash
+++ b/package/dbus/dbus.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.14.10.tar.xz.asc
+# https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.16.2.tar.xz.asc
 # using key 36EC5A6448A4F5EF79BEFE98E05AE1478F814C4F
-sha256  ba1f21d2bd9d339da2d4aa8780c09df32fea87998b73da24f49ab9df1e36a50f  dbus-1.14.10.tar.xz
+sha256  0ba2a1a4b16afe7bceb2c07e9ce99a8c2c3508e5dec290dbb643384bd6beb7e2  dbus-1.16.2.tar.xz
 
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  e61807cd1c32ff4e7bd5b4b61dd21997c6dc5642cf19316124fe38d50e1f9fa3  COPYING
+sha256  150e5d08e1cb5e62b65967d7931acad2c42d98ec1bbb584bebb01921cbc853c2  COPYING
+sha256  7ecc7db84298adb05d2cf10339c63a5315a1c5c270a68d97d7d40a53b508ccde  LICENSES/AFL-2.0.txt
+sha256  93bb4f7417aa775bab9026cc3d0af28aeb64451fc5a8ec651876785edd8eaf9b  LICENSES/AFL-2.1.txt
+sha256  aaf135472f81c5b4a0dca9367e5bb5e9750032b5bebe5442b36e4c0a47430df3  LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt
+sha256  a4c1387064fda4c22bfca364b606eb4e0421efa37cad27c040a3d7ca7186d522  LICENSES/LicenseRef-CMakeScripts.txt
+sha256  cf4bc4c56dd0837f3d53b8c1467e0d7dbb95223de8bcfe83a4981c318a738ae3  LICENSES/LicenseRef-GAP.txt
+sha256  2cb8f4f410f0ffc5dcfbadd188e20c859fdbb161e616cf2f3d34dfbf8c740547  LICENSES/LicenseRef-pycrypto-orig.txt
+sha256  b85dcd3e453d05982552c52b5fc9e0bdd6d23c6f8e844b984a88af32570b0cc0  LICENSES/MIT.txt
+sha256  36fc2d8a56a2a014ded51e298a7e63635eb4ec62e8bedb99c82b892542ac5e7d  LICENSES/TCL.txt
diff --git a/package/dbus/dbus.mk b/package/dbus/dbus.mk
index 7b97c7604d..ef7cc767ad 100644
--- a/package/dbus/dbus.mk
+++ b/package/dbus/dbus.mk
@@ -6,11 +6,26 @@
 
 # When updating dbus, check if there are changes in session.conf and
 # system.conf, and update the versions in the dbus-broker package accordingly.
-DBUS_VERSION = 1.14.10
+DBUS_VERSION = 1.16.2
 DBUS_SOURCE = dbus-$(DBUS_VERSION).tar.xz
 DBUS_SITE = https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus
-DBUS_LICENSE = AFL-2.1 or GPL-2.0+ (library, tools), GPL-2.0+ (tools)
-DBUS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+DBUS_LICENSE = \
+	AFL-2.0 or GPL-2.0+ (dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h.in), \
+	AFL-2.1 or GPL-2.0+ (library, daemon, some tools), \
+	GPL-2.0+ (some tools), MIT (some files), \
+	Public Domain (dbus-sha), TCL (dbus-hash), \
+	LicenseRef-CMakeScripts (cmake/modules/FindGLIB2.cmake), \
+	LicenseRef-GAP (dbus/versioninfo.rc.in)
+DBUS_LICENSE_FILES = \
+	COPYING \
+	LICENSES/AFL-2.0.txt \
+	LICENSES/AFL-2.1.txt \
+	LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt \
+	LICENSES/LicenseRef-CMakeScripts.txt \
+	LICENSES/LicenseRef-GAP.txt \
+	LICENSES/LicenseRef-pycrypto-orig.txt \
+	LICENSES/MIT.txt \
+	LICENSES/TCL.txt
 DBUS_CPE_ID_VENDOR = freedesktop
 DBUS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
@@ -27,56 +42,59 @@ DBUS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf expat
 DBUS_SELINUX_MODULES = dbus
 
 DBUS_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--with-dbus-user=dbus \
-	--disable-tests \
-	--disable-asserts \
-	--disable-xml-docs \
-	--disable-doxygen-docs \
-	--with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket \
-	--with-system-pid-file=/run/dbus-daemon.pid \
-	--with-session-socket-dir=/tmp \
-	--runstatedir=/run
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += LIBS='-pthread'
-endif
+	-Dapparmor=disabled \
+	-Dasserts=false \
+	-Ddbus_user=dbus \
+	-Ddoxygen_docs=disabled \
+	-Dducktype_docs=disabled \
+	-Dinstalled_tests=false \
+	-Dintrusive_tests=false \
+	-Dlaunchd=disabled \
+	-Dmodular_tests=disabled \
+	-Dqt_help=disabled \
+	-Druntime_dir=/run \
+	-Dsession_socket_dir=/tmp \
+	-Dsystem_pid_file=/run/dbus-daemon.pid \
+	-Dsystem_socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket \
+	-Dxml_docs=disabled
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_microblaze),y)
 # microblaze toolchain doesn't provide inotify_rm_* but does have sys/inotify.h
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --disable-inotify
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dinotify=disabled
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSELINUX),y)
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-selinux
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dselinux=enabled
 DBUS_DEPENDENCIES += libselinux
 else
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --disable-selinux
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dselinux=disabled
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_AUDIT)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCAP_NG),yy)
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-libaudit
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dlibaudit=enabled
 DBUS_DEPENDENCIES += audit libcap-ng
 else
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --disable-libaudit
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dlibaudit=disabled
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11),y)
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --with-x
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dx11_autolaunch=enabled
 DBUS_DEPENDENCIES += xlib_libX11
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBSM),y)
-DBUS_DEPENDENCIES += xlib_libSM
-endif
 else
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --without-x
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += -Dx11_autolaunch=disabled
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD),y)
 DBUS_CONF_OPTS += \
-	--enable-systemd \
-	--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system
+	-Dsystemd=enabled \
+	-Dsystemd_system_unitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \
+	-Dsystemd_user_unitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/user \
+	-Duser_session=true
 DBUS_DEPENDENCIES += systemd
 else
-DBUS_CONF_OPTS += --disable-systemd
+DBUS_CONF_OPTS += \
+	-Dsystemd=disabled \
+	-Duser_session=false
 endif
 
 # fix rebuild (dbus makefile errors out if /var/lib/dbus is a symlink)
@@ -122,14 +140,22 @@ endef
 
 HOST_DBUS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-expat
 HOST_DBUS_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--with-dbus-user=dbus \
-	--disable-tests \
-	--disable-asserts \
-	--disable-selinux \
-	--disable-xml-docs \
-	--disable-doxygen-docs \
-	--disable-systemd \
-	--without-x
+	-Dapparmor=disabled \
+	-Dasserts=false \
+	-Ddbus_user=dbus \
+	-Ddoxygen_docs=disabled \
+	-Dducktype_docs=disabled \
+	-Dinstalled_tests=false \
+	-Dintrusive_tests=false \
+	-Dlaunchd=disabled \
+	-Dlibaudit=disabled \
+	-Dmodular_tests=disabled \
+	-Dqt_help=disabled \
+	-Dselinux=disabled \
+	-Dsystemd=disabled \
+	-Duser_session=false \
+	-Dx11_autolaunch=disabled \
+	-Dxml_docs=disabled
 
 # dbus for the host
 DBUS_HOST_INTROSPECT = $(HOST_DBUS_DIR)/introspect.xml
@@ -139,5 +165,5 @@ HOST_DBUS_GEN_INTROSPECT = \
 
 HOST_DBUS_POST_INSTALL_HOOKS += HOST_DBUS_GEN_INTROSPECT
 
-$(eval $(autotools-package))
-$(eval $(host-autotools-package))
+$(eval $(meson-package))
+$(eval $(host-meson-package))