diff --git a/package/vlc/vlc.hash b/package/vlc/vlc.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..718a0e6cda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/vlc/vlc.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# From http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.1.6/vlc-2.1.6.tar.xz.sha256
+sha256	1b76cf4b96e18cf224d21b91343f7e579790c5d3e499c8a230f53da695687c04	vlc-2.1.6.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/vlc/vlc.mk b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
index 9d99de636f..56006b5b46 100644
--- a/package/vlc/vlc.mk
+++ b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-VLC_VERSION = 2.1.5
+VLC_VERSION = 2.1.6
 VLC_SITE = http://get.videolan.org/vlc/$(VLC_VERSION)
 VLC_SOURCE = vlc-$(VLC_VERSION).tar.xz
 VLC_LICENSE = GPLv2+ LGPLv2.1+