diff --git a/package/erlang-rebar/erlang-rebar.mk b/package/erlang-rebar/erlang-rebar.mk
index f29eb75697..06a780043a 100644
--- a/package/erlang-rebar/erlang-rebar.mk
+++ b/package/erlang-rebar/erlang-rebar.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ERLANG_REBAR_VERSION = 2.5.1
+ERLANG_REBAR_VERSION = 2.6.1
 
 # Upstream publishes a release, but we can not use it as it is a release of
 # a generated rebar script, when we want the sources. So we have to use the