diff --git a/package/thermald/thermald.hash b/package/thermald/thermald.hash
index 9693813ca9..fff5ae6284 100644
--- a/package/thermald/thermald.hash
+++ b/package/thermald/thermald.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  75c165df45b3d09c904d314c8c19789158e9538f46e3d2b606457dc631eb3af5  thermald-2.5.1.tar.gz
+sha256  e5a452624f133d71f4aff0bd0c8f8258399a5ae1a7d5aea177fa6a6e33dad1fd  thermald-2.5.6.tar.gz
 sha256  e98be8bc482e038a14bfbc01caf800bbd0024fff275ef14cd999db6560254a8d  COPYING
diff --git a/package/thermald/thermald.mk b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
index fd0246745f..9faa47683b 100644
--- a/package/thermald/thermald.mk
+++ b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-THERMALD_VERSION = 2.5.1
+THERMALD_VERSION = 2.5.6
 THERMALD_SITE = $(call github,intel,thermal_daemon,v$(THERMALD_VERSION))
 # fetched from Github, with no configure script
 THERMALD_AUTORECONF = YES