diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.hash b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.hash
index e2eb3ae65d..c50475ccb0 100644
--- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.hash
+++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Hash from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-validate/gst-validate-1.4.0.tar.xz.sha256sum
-sha256 ac30d1041a8cfe5d268439f5cedee7e9753ba49080fc67bff1266581198438d0 gst-validate-1.4.0.tar.xz
+# From http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-validate/gst-validate-1.6.0.tar.xz.sha256sum
+sha256 3baef8c7b5363293c20314a30afd54629849fc597669991fdcf92303602dafee  gst-validate-1.6.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.mk b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.mk
index 9a9e796aa9..b8b09daf07 100644
--- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.mk
+++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-validate/gst1-validate.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GST1_VALIDATE_VERSION = 1.4.0
+GST1_VALIDATE_VERSION = 1.6.0
 GST1_VALIDATE_SOURCE = gst-validate-$(GST1_VALIDATE_VERSION).tar.xz
 GST1_VALIDATE_SITE = http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-validate
 GST1_VALIDATE_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+