diff --git a/package/boinc/boinc.hash b/package/boinc/boinc.hash
index eeaaf68edd..df30a5c508 100644
--- a/package/boinc/boinc.hash
+++ b/package/boinc/boinc.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256 970aedb9e25afa20be67f125ab05435df8eb2e66a3ac30ad316c54085e397c88  boinc-7.14.2.tar.gz
+sha256 a886257cdf6beeb39536849bb21d8c0731a8e551b15c56f6949c65b140c6febf  boinc-7.16.1.tar.gz
 sha256 8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
 sha256 a853c2ffec17057872340eee242ae4d96cbf2b520ae27d903e1b2fef1a5f9d1c  COPYING.LESSER
diff --git a/package/boinc/boinc.mk b/package/boinc/boinc.mk
index dd468c7678..789a01ffef 100644
--- a/package/boinc/boinc.mk
+++ b/package/boinc/boinc.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR = 7.14
-BOINC_VERSION = $(BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR).2
+BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR = 7.16
+BOINC_VERSION = $(BOINC_VERSION_MAJOR).1
 # 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).