diff --git a/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash b/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
index 2692889327..88f3e6ed5d 100644
--- a/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
+++ b/package/dropbear/dropbear.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/releases/SHA256SUM.asc
-sha256	5c61a4f69b093b688629cd365be38701485ff63cfb23642dab7a05ad250aefd7  dropbear-2016.73.tar.bz2
+sha256 2720ea54ed009af812701bcc290a2a601d5c107d12993e5d92c0f5f81f718891 dropbear-2016.74.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk b/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
index 32e2167771..743d52479e 100644
--- a/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
+++ b/package/dropbear/dropbear.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DROPBEAR_VERSION = 2016.73
+DROPBEAR_VERSION = 2016.74
 DROPBEAR_SITE = http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/releases
 DROPBEAR_SOURCE = dropbear-$(DROPBEAR_VERSION).tar.bz2
 DROPBEAR_LICENSE = MIT, BSD-2c-like, BSD-2c