diff --git a/package/haveged/haveged.hash b/package/haveged/haveged.hash
index 048941849c..fc7858787d 100644
--- a/package/haveged/haveged.hash
+++ b/package/haveged/haveged.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  c4959d3cb1fa6391d16a3aa1ba4d82cd3a0d497206ae4b87d638088c0664e5aa	haveged-1.9.4.tar.gz
+sha256  4d4c046755476d3734ffb78772c242c25913ff0eb7509c143671dae6ec9d1189	haveged-1.9.6.tar.gz
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903	COPYING
diff --git a/package/haveged/haveged.mk b/package/haveged/haveged.mk
index bc1bb2d3ac..afb54df1ad 100644
--- a/package/haveged/haveged.mk
+++ b/package/haveged/haveged.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-HAVEGED_VERSION = 1.9.4
-HAVEGED_SITE = $(call github,jirka-h,haveged,$(HAVEGED_VERSION))
+HAVEGED_VERSION = 1.9.6
+HAVEGED_SITE = $(call github,jirka-h,haveged,v$(HAVEGED_VERSION))
 HAVEGED_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+
 HAVEGED_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING