diff --git a/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash b/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
index 934b26b85c..82872441d7 100644
--- a/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
+++ b/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/releases/SHA256SUM.asc
-sha256	376214169c0e187ee9f48ae1a99b3f835016ad5b98ede4bfd1cf581deba783af  dropbear-2015.71.tar.bz2
+sha256	9323766d3257699fd7d6e7b282c5a65790864ab32fd09ac73ea3d46c9ca2d681  dropbear-2016.72.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk b/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
index e7633ae8bd..4ba94c3a71 100644
--- a/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
+++ b/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DROPBEAR_VERSION = 2015.71
+DROPBEAR_VERSION = 2016.72
 DROPBEAR_SITE = http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/releases
 DROPBEAR_SOURCE = dropbear-$(DROPBEAR_VERSION).tar.bz2
 DROPBEAR_LICENSE = MIT, BSD-2c-like, BSD-2c