diff --git a/package/containerd/containerd.hash b/package/containerd/containerd.hash
index 23dacded88..eb9f2894a9 100644
--- a/package/containerd/containerd.hash
+++ b/package/containerd/containerd.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Computed locally
-sha256  6a289406c1c0583763e5a9754e31a1eced55cd5f162a7bc2a3a315d5eb05c7a1  containerd-1.5.11.tar.gz
+sha256  4ea21a6b4649512366e7c31ae547ad89c6a69c6586a6d8565cff07898de344b0  containerd-1.6.2.tar.gz
 sha256  4bbe3b885e8cd1907ab4cf9a41e862e74e24b5422297a4f2fe524e6a30ada2b4  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/containerd/containerd.mk b/package/containerd/containerd.mk
index c405b75e81..36f2db4125 100644
--- a/package/containerd/containerd.mk
+++ b/package/containerd/containerd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.5.11
+CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.6.2
 CONTAINERD_SITE = $(call github,containerd,containerd,v$(CONTAINERD_VERSION))
 CONTAINERD_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 CONTAINERD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE