diff --git a/package/libvpx/libvpx.hash b/package/libvpx/libvpx.hash
index 44cd994e10..f0240d69ec 100644
--- a/package/libvpx/libvpx.hash
+++ b/package/libvpx/libvpx.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  f582d9b2d60a592a4a3d8c32965ca2d2167e9ade38c6c30bac8801ff66a118e4  libvpx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+sha256  d0afbb5eb1ecae68f8d578abace160a97e2e8a230e3028cf4db115d59a695aad  libvpx-1.6.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/libvpx/libvpx.mk b/package/libvpx/libvpx.mk
index 066b037fb8..4ad5522498 100644
--- a/package/libvpx/libvpx.mk
+++ b/package/libvpx/libvpx.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBVPX_VERSION = 1.4.0
+LIBVPX_VERSION = 1.6.0
 LIBVPX_SOURCE = libvpx-$(LIBVPX_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBVPX_SITE = http://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webm
 LIBVPX_LICENSE = BSD-3c