diff --git a/package/unbound/unbound.hash b/package/unbound/unbound.hash
index 99caf7dd3d..68087cc28e 100644
--- a/package/unbound/unbound.hash
+++ b/package/unbound/unbound.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/unbound-1.15.0.tar.gz.sha256
-sha256  a480dc6c8937447b98d161fe911ffc76cfaffa2da18788781314e81339f1126f  unbound-1.15.0.tar.gz
+# From https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/unbound-1.16.0.tar.gz.sha256
+sha256  6701534c938eb019626601191edc6d012fc534c09d2418d5b92827db0cbe48a5  unbound-1.16.0.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  8eb9a16cbfb8703090bbfa3a2028fd46bb351509a2f90dc1001e51fbe6fd45db  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/unbound/unbound.mk b/package/unbound/unbound.mk
index 782ed2b049..988508576b 100644
--- a/package/unbound/unbound.mk
+++ b/package/unbound/unbound.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-UNBOUND_VERSION = 1.15.0
+UNBOUND_VERSION = 1.16.0
 UNBOUND_SITE = https://www.unbound.net/downloads
 UNBOUND_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf expat libevent openssl
 UNBOUND_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause