diff --git a/package/gzip/gzip.hash b/package/gzip/gzip.hash
index 56f052f7c8..755c4504b3 100644
--- a/package/gzip/gzip.hash
+++ b/package/gzip/gzip.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	37dfed1a485d53212c43b3fa2a7c7952f09bf5cd86e37121c222341ee1b27847  gzip-1.6.tar.xz
+sha256	fb31c57e7ce7703596ef57329be7cc5c5fd741b4a0f659fea7ee6a54706b41ab  gzip-1.7.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/gzip/gzip.mk b/package/gzip/gzip.mk
index 1b2f678fe0..b5dc3616bb 100644
--- a/package/gzip/gzip.mk
+++ b/package/gzip/gzip.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GZIP_VERSION = 1.6
+GZIP_VERSION = 1.7
 GZIP_SOURCE = gzip-$(GZIP_VERSION).tar.xz
 GZIP_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gzip
 # Some other tools expect it to be in /bin