diff --git a/lang/php5/Makefile b/lang/php5/Makefile
index cc31822fb..3ab2e8eae 100644
--- a/lang/php5/Makefile
+++ b/lang/php5/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=php
-PKG_VERSION:=5.6.15
+PKG_VERSION:=5.6.16
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>, Michael Heimpold <mhei@heimpold.de>
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>, Michael Heimpold <mhei@heimp
 PKG_LICENSE:=PHPv3.01
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
 
-PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.php.net/distributions/
-PKG_MD5SUM:=bdfa8fb1b895a25e1cc05c162f9ae5fc
+PKG_MD5SUM:=3f1d999ed1f9cb5713c9a0161c557f2f
 
 PKG_FIXUP:=libtool autoreconf
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1