diff --git a/lang/php5/Makefile b/lang/php5/Makefile
index 3ab2e8eae..17314cfeb 100644
--- a/lang/php5/Makefile
+++ b/lang/php5/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2015 OpenWrt.org
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2016 OpenWrt.org
 #
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=php
-PKG_VERSION:=5.6.16
+PKG_VERSION:=5.6.17
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>, Michael Heimpold <mhei@heimpold.de>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.php.net/distributions/
-PKG_MD5SUM:=3f1d999ed1f9cb5713c9a0161c557f2f
+PKG_MD5SUM:=5e080e4b7df5db24f1b64313f8114bd8
 
 PKG_FIXUP:=libtool autoreconf
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1