diff --git a/package/ncurses/ncurses.hash b/package/ncurses/ncurses.hash
index 7369e3cd64..fe9bdbe915 100644
--- a/package/ncurses/ncurses.hash
+++ b/package/ncurses/ncurses.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  fc3871f051e941a637488c07c81d984f731003e65c0f78353606e18296011aac  ncurses-6.5-20250720.tar.gz
+sha256  9796dfb0e790bac2a994a86df83adddc1a96021cbc02c44c4f2ea886069bd91d  ncurses-6.6-20251231.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  708999f95527e1ffa670c6fce288c6c600cb477dd04afcc1171422b3dd4ee226  COPYING
diff --git a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
index 864f62b57c..5e2077500a 100644
--- a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
+++ b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 # When there is no snapshost yet for a new version, set it to the empty string
-NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.5
-NCURSES_SNAPSHOT_DATE = 20250720
+NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.6
+NCURSES_SNAPSHOT_DATE = 20251231
 NCURSES_VERSION = $(NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR)$(if $(NCURSES_SNAPSHOT_DATE),-$(NCURSES_SNAPSHOT_DATE))
 NCURSES_VERSION_GIT = $(subst .,_,$(subst -,_,$(NCURSES_VERSION)))
 NCURSES_SITE = $(call github,ThomasDickey,ncurses-snapshots,v$(NCURSES_VERSION_GIT))