diff --git a/package/swupdate/swupdate.hash b/package/swupdate/swupdate.hash
index 918ca2fe89..1ba10f6457 100644
--- a/package/swupdate/swupdate.hash
+++ b/package/swupdate/swupdate.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  c21d2fd52eb7ed9c304a7a996d230a8f1b47b9879a8c9fa50c80b41e117d1e60  swupdate-2016.07.tar.gz
+sha256  840d6287a41f7a42e08a74045ee40b7c2f82c1ecfedf8c915e3935d4f0084376  swupdate-2016.10.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/swupdate/swupdate.mk b/package/swupdate/swupdate.mk
index d442810b21..c905c1d746 100644
--- a/package/swupdate/swupdate.mk
+++ b/package/swupdate/swupdate.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SWUPDATE_VERSION = 2016.07
+SWUPDATE_VERSION = 2016.10
 SWUPDATE_SITE = $(call github,sbabic,swupdate,$(SWUPDATE_VERSION))
 SWUPDATE_LICENSE = GPLv2+, MIT, Public Domain
 SWUPDATE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING