diff --git a/package/micropython/micropython.hash b/package/micropython/micropython.hash
index fe47ee09c4..d5045e8f27 100644
--- a/package/micropython/micropython.hash
+++ b/package/micropython/micropython.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #locally computed
-sha256  542eb120df8d9eb6f200bcd856294e143813adea9dda0d7189405c218d4b16f7  micropython-1.14.tar.gz
-sha256  9c6089e26c8638a0645bcb0db2c85051f82de8022dcd07fb22baa0c5f9362085  LICENSE
+sha256  c21dbf8144237b3dbe3847c9ad5264cd0f3104eb078c810b3986004cce8fcd70  micropython-1.17.tar.gz
+sha256  59b1f0947a87c90d0d29dbe2c8deb3d1f8263bbbd2fb5ebcc79a649cff6dfcba  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/micropython/micropython.mk b/package/micropython/micropython.mk
index 03811be714..3d69e152e5 100644
--- a/package/micropython/micropython.mk
+++ b/package/micropython/micropython.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MICROPYTHON_VERSION = 1.14
+MICROPYTHON_VERSION = 1.17
 MICROPYTHON_SITE = $(call github,micropython,micropython,v$(MICROPYTHON_VERSION))
 # Micropython has a lot of code copied from other projects, and also a number
 # of submodules for various libs. However, we don't even clone the submodules,