diff --git a/package/nettle/nettle.hash b/package/nettle/nettle.hash
index 1e13aab411..1bbc1c6d22 100644
--- a/package/nettle/nettle.hash
+++ b/package/nettle/nettle.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.5.1.tar.gz.sig
-sha256	75cca1998761b02e16f2db56da52992aef622bf55a3b45ec538bc2eedadc9419	nettle-3.5.1.tar.gz
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.6.tar.gz.sig
+sha256  d24c0d0f2abffbc8f4f34dcf114b0f131ec3774895f3555922fe2f40f3d5e3f1  nettle-3.6.tar.gz
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	a853c2ffec17057872340eee242ae4d96cbf2b520ae27d903e1b2fef1a5f9d1c	COPYING.LESSERv3
-sha256	8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643	COPYINGv2
+sha256  a853c2ffec17057872340eee242ae4d96cbf2b520ae27d903e1b2fef1a5f9d1c  COPYING.LESSERv3
+sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYINGv2
diff --git a/package/nettle/nettle.mk b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
index 380d167521..50ebdc706b 100644
--- a/package/nettle/nettle.mk
+++ b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-NETTLE_VERSION = 3.5.1
+NETTLE_VERSION = 3.6
 NETTLE_SITE = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive
 NETTLE_DEPENDENCIES = gmp
 NETTLE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES