diff --git a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
index eb28f4d441..017447bce6 100644
--- a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
+++ b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  2ed2e4c965c7f336a15d3354dec090e27a0b1e9ada91ae0b9ef18bbcb993874e  rt-tests-2.5.tar.xz
+sha256  761d10c4b7f5b28400f0c301fe0171eaa74f347df64cb359210254b8e6aff19f  rt-tests-2.6.tar.xz
 # locally computed hash
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
index 8ad4215ee1..4b1aa31796 100644
--- a/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
+++ b/package/rt-tests/rt-tests.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 RT_TESTS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/rt-tests
 RT_TESTS_SOURCE = rt-tests-$(RT_TESTS_VERSION).tar.xz
-RT_TESTS_VERSION = 2.5
+RT_TESTS_VERSION = 2.6
 RT_TESTS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 RT_TESTS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING