diff --git a/package/vala/vala.hash b/package/vala/vala.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fcaa0e16e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/vala/vala.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.26/vala-0.26.2.sha256sum
+sha256	37f13f430c56a93b6dac85239084681fd8f31c407d386809c43bc2f2836e03c4	vala-0.26.2.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/vala/vala.mk b/package/vala/vala.mk
index 9b0fd31a3d..292ea7ea31 100644
--- a/package/vala/vala.mk
+++ b/package/vala/vala.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.18
-VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).1
+VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.26
+VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).2
 VALA_SITE = http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/$(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR)
 VALA_SOURCE = vala-$(VALA_VERSION).tar.xz
 VALA_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+