diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.hash b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
index f0c3db60e7..c0f4638803 100644
--- a/package/systemd/systemd.hash
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # sha256 locally computed
-sha256  41873783aa1c680e10d2f2626797a1c2fef8018d69b68c8c77639e140ee7846d  systemd-254.5.tar.gz
+sha256  1e1e42c597b4f992679aa964a0c5c23d970c58fed47aed65c11878b332dc5b23  systemd-254.6.tar.gz
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  LICENSE.GPL2
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  LICENSE.LGPL2.1
 sha256  e5a8645ad94aab24e312dd0c6be2aa54236eb9374480b1b14ea5c61598874fd5  LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt
diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.mk b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
index ccc0e14874..4746bda904 100644
--- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # - Diff sysusers.d with the previous version
 # - Diff factory/etc/nsswitch.conf with the previous version
 #   (details are often sprinkled around in README and manpages)
-SYSTEMD_VERSION = 254.5
+SYSTEMD_VERSION = 254.6
 SYSTEMD_SITE = $(call github,systemd,systemd-stable,v$(SYSTEMD_VERSION))
 SYSTEMD_LICENSE = \
 	LGPL-2.1+, \