diff --git a/package/file/file.hash b/package/file/file.hash
index 3fafff8e7b..dcf96ecb27 100644
--- a/package/file/file.hash
+++ b/package/file/file.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 694c2432e5240187524c9e7cf1ec6acc77b47a0e19554d34c14773e43dbbf214  file-5.30.tar.gz
+sha256 09c588dac9cff4baa054f51a36141793bcf64926edc909594111ceae60fce4ee  file-5.31.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/file/file.mk b/package/file/file.mk
index 1cd09c530f..375c60c33d 100644
--- a/package/file/file.mk
+++ b/package/file/file.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FILE_VERSION = 5.30
+FILE_VERSION = 5.31
 FILE_SITE = ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file
 FILE_DEPENDENCIES = host-file zlib
 HOST_FILE_DEPENDENCIES = host-zlib