diff --git a/package/automake/automake.hash b/package/automake/automake.hash
index e8112e0c48..b2e70641db 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.hash
+++ b/package/automake/automake.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  80facc09885a57e6d49d06972c0ae1089c5fa8f4d4c7cfe5baea58e5085f136d  automake-1.16.4.tar.xz
+sha256  f01d58cd6d9d77fbdca9eb4bbd5ead1988228fdb73d6f7a201f5f8d6b118b469  automake-1.16.5.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/automake/automake.mk b/package/automake/automake.mk
index 470a0bd46e..5270e7864d 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.mk
+++ b/package/automake/automake.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.16.4
+AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.16.5
 AUTOMAKE_SOURCE = automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOMAKE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/automake
 AUTOMAKE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+