diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
index 4b3a087ec5..557660f0cf 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  54f8b172fa41cb7d4450c12666a8f9716ed7ba7391c54d3467c64772f6399d67  asterisk-16.0.0.tar.gz
+sha256  97e1bae8e9034cb2a8bc0d4d5bcc9dee4ffe4c6c57ed40b8825be79266fcac50  asterisk-16.1.0.tar.gz
 
 # sha1 from: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/releases
 # sha256 locally computed
diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
index 8a46438f92..90f415647e 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ASTERISK_VERSION = 16.0.0
+ASTERISK_VERSION = 16.1.0
 # Use the github mirror: it's an official mirror maintained by Digium, and
 # provides tarballs, which the main Asterisk git tree (behind Gerrit) does not.
 ASTERISK_SITE = $(call github,asterisk,asterisk,$(ASTERISK_VERSION))
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ ASTERISK_LICENSE_FILES = \
 
 # For patches 0002, 0003 and 0005
 ASTERISK_AUTORECONF = YES
-ASTERISK_AUTORECONF_OPTS = -Iautoconf -Ithird-party -Ithird-party/pjproject
+ASTERISK_AUTORECONF_OPTS = -Iautoconf -Ithird-party -Ithird-party/pjproject -Ithird-party/jansson
 
 ASTERISK_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-asterisk \