diff --git a/package/botan/botan.hash b/package/botan/botan.hash
index e8d62aa98c..003dd13e9c 100644
--- a/package/botan/botan.hash
+++ b/package/botan/botan.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://botan.randombit.net/releases/sha256sums.txt
-sha256  d88af1307f1fefac79aa4f2f524699478d69ce15a857cf2d0a90ac6bf2a50009  Botan-2.15.0.tar.xz
+sha256  92ed6ebc918d86bd1b04221ca518af4cf29cc326c4760740bd2d22e61cea2628  Botan-2.16.0.tar.xz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  fb7f0322d36fba55ca17d77bc203a9f09a40daa8a249b75cf8887aba36cec9d0  license.txt
diff --git a/package/botan/botan.mk b/package/botan/botan.mk
index 19677a40e0..d36324c7f7 100644
--- a/package/botan/botan.mk
+++ b/package/botan/botan.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BOTAN_VERSION = 2.15.0
+BOTAN_VERSION = 2.16.0
 BOTAN_SOURCE = Botan-$(BOTAN_VERSION).tar.xz
 BOTAN_SITE = http://botan.randombit.net/releases
 BOTAN_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause