diff --git a/package/boinc/boinc.hash b/package/boinc/boinc.hash
index 48d61dc919..aa2aebcc4c 100644
--- a/package/boinc/boinc.hash
+++ b/package/boinc/boinc.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256 622ce3335a01ef30add4813c0cc7b65cffcaa5500a7f58f77748d0dbc80e6b06  boinc-7.16.3.tar.gz
+sha256 33db60991b253e717c6124cce4750ae7729eaab4e54ec718b9e37f87012d668a  boinc-7.16.5.tar.gz
 sha256 8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
 sha256 a853c2ffec17057872340eee242ae4d96cbf2b520ae27d903e1b2fef1a5f9d1c  COPYING.LESSER
diff --git a/package/boinc/boinc.mk b/package/boinc/boinc.mk
index 827eaa0c84..b6a9374715 100644
--- a/package/boinc/boinc.mk
+++ b/package/boinc/boinc.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR = 7.16
-BOINC_VERSION = $(BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR).3
+BOINC_VERSION = $(BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR).5
 # client_release can be used to build the Client and Manager but not the Server
 # part. The Server currently has no versioning (see
 # https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1798).