diff --git a/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.hash b/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.hash
index c647fcac11..9d59cfef78 100644
--- a/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.hash
+++ b/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Locally calculated
-sha256	b08293697c211b690856f76a25ad7acd4ca458b4132851e0a1e471d0bf23c821	DirectFB-examples-1.6.0.tar.gz
+# Locally computed
+sha256 9a2104cc4da8123c8371813551b66b943198979f745cbebc034bb5e10844122a DirectFB-examples-1.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.mk b/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.mk
index ac8e61c789..ee883f7477 100644
--- a/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.mk
+++ b/package/directfb-examples/directfb-examples.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_VERSION = 1.6.0
+DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_VERSION = 1.7.0
 DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_SITE = http://www.directfb.org/downloads/Extras
 DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_SOURCE = DirectFB-examples-$(DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_VERSION).tar.gz
 DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_LICENSE = MIT