diff --git a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
index 3aba2e7dba..2e7cf49c25 100644
--- a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
+++ b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 3318eddc03782cfdad22b20eff18eaf378c498c5de286e8cbaa5521ddf4f810b  irqbalance-1.5.0.tar.gz
+sha256 5ace9dd69d5190e24ee34210c3131333e9963e3ba649bf9237eabb4313c300d2  irqbalance-1.6.0.tar.gz
 sha256 32b1062f7da84967e7019d01ab805935caa7ab7321a7ced0e30ebe75e5df1670  COPYING
diff --git a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
index 8e550df3bf..b01eba96c8 100644
--- a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
+++ b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IRQBALANCE_VERSION = 1.5.0
+IRQBALANCE_VERSION = 1.6.0
 IRQBALANCE_SITE = $(call github,irqbalance,irqbalance,v$(IRQBALANCE_VERSION))
 IRQBALANCE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 IRQBALANCE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING