diff --git a/package/libinput/libinput.hash b/package/libinput/libinput.hash
index 73f5c01bc0..dd3573f2e1 100644
--- a/package/libinput/libinput.hash
+++ b/package/libinput/libinput.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# From https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-January/032610.html
-sha256	6f9ad1ede468bd54ec4469b8a4eb93a6f62f7fe6480c7a43e36c5d58cc2822b7	libinput-1.5.4.tar.xz
+# From https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-January/032746.html
+sha256 b7534f518d735c643aedca2fb4694683dfddc8d0600cfb628c87a18e65255832  libinput-1.6.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libinput/libinput.mk b/package/libinput/libinput.mk
index f4ae0fcd57..52aca9acfd 100644
--- a/package/libinput/libinput.mk
+++ b/package/libinput/libinput.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBINPUT_VERSION = 1.5.4
+LIBINPUT_VERSION = 1.6.0
 LIBINPUT_SOURCE = libinput-$(LIBINPUT_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBINPUT_SITE = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libinput
 LIBINPUT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libevdev mtdev udev