diff --git a/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.hash b/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.hash
index 175865bb67..27f18862bc 100644
--- a/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.hash
+++ b/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  8f5b69a6598dc071e6a0f2102dbd38a003e7db6be5794116d701531d6a740a46  mender-artifact-3.5.1.tar.gz
-sha256  0afbd1092d57f70da125041350363c3761802e807be80c7f1dfc005fea962b25  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256
+sha256  c46c305616cf53e65b786862addf04d97c388e451f11478886967b494c4ce5d9  mender-artifact-3.6.1.tar.gz
+sha256  ac23df36801aea6a28685b60a742f68f99d357e0d9973d5c36aa2e72599d8e2a  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256
 
 # License hash extracted from LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256 using the
 # following command:
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ sha256  0afbd1092d57f70da125041350363c3761802e807be80c7f1dfc005fea962b25  LIC_FI
 # Apache 2.0 licenses.
 sha256  b4acfcfa2a0ba1a8c82ec3965fbcee886cff8394ca4214e0ddac0a36beb1e05a  LICENSE
 sha256  cfc7749b96f63bd31c3c42b5c471bf756814053e847c10f3eb003417bc523d30  vendor/github.com/minio/sha256-simd/LICENSE
-sha256  f4a394d9345ba64dd2796dc552c31af99c4b686a46c0eeda6538038732f771a9  vendor/github.com/mendersoftware/progressbar/LICENSE
+sha256  8f5d89b47d7a05a199b77b7e0f362dad391d451ebda4ef48ba11c50c071564c7  vendor/github.com/mendersoftware/progressbar/LICENSE
 #
 # BSD 2 Clause licenses.
 sha256  8d427fd87bc9579ea368fde3d49f9ca22eac857f91a9dec7e3004bdfab7dee86  vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/LICENSE
diff --git a/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.mk b/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.mk
index 8a77e67b8c..34d0cd9469 100644
--- a/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.mk
+++ b/package/mender-artifact/mender-artifact.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION = 3.5.1
+HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION = 3.6.1
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_SITE = $(call github,mendersoftware,mender-artifact,$(HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION))
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_LICENSE = Apache2.0, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ISC, MIT
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_LICENSE_FILES = \
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_DEPENDENCIES = host-xz
 # permission issues when cleaning.
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_GO_ENV = GOFLAGS="-mod=vendor"
 
-HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_LDFLAGS = -X main.Version=$(HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION)
-
-HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_BUILD_TARGETS = cli/mender-artifact
+HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_LDFLAGS = -X github.com/mendersoftware/mender-artifact/cli.Version=$(HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION)
 
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_BIN_NAME = mender-artifact
 HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_INSTALL_BINS = $(HOST_MENDER_ARTIFACT_BIN_NAME)