diff --git a/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.hash b/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.hash
index 6877b7008d..f7c82b086b 100644
--- a/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.hash
+++ b/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-03/msg00002.html
-sha256  ce538ebd26a09f45da67d3ad3f7431932428231ceec7a2d255f716fa231a1063  ddrescue-1.25.tar.lz
+# From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-01/msg00013.html
+sha256  e513cd3a90d9810dfdd91197d40aa40f6df01597bfb5ecfdfb205de1127c551f  ddrescue-1.26.tar.lz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  3d77c1a58fbde5ddba612d1fe09965e20a3804953eca12e8c1892298bb8a5eef  COPYING
diff --git a/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.mk b/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.mk
index f113681fa1..6d16d8701f 100644
--- a/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.mk
+++ b/package/ddrescue/ddrescue.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DDRESCUE_VERSION = 1.25
+DDRESCUE_VERSION = 1.26
 DDRESCUE_SOURCE = ddrescue-$(DDRESCUE_VERSION).tar.lz
 DDRESCUE_SITE = http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue
 DDRESCUE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+