diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.hash b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
index 7e5b33149c..81a5be2b7d 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.hash
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.48/
-sha1  132bfa1a68e3d8f741d0b3fe03809e181fe57b7d  libpng-1.6.48.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.49/
+sha1  ba0b3067213c53ee0e36e98824450a4f264d815d  libpng-1.6.49.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  46fd06ff37db1db64c0dc288d78a3f5efd23ad9ac41561193f983e20937ece03  libpng-1.6.48.tar.xz
+sha256  43182aa48e39d64b1ab4ec6b71ab3e910b67eed3a0fff3777cf8cf40d6ef7024  libpng-1.6.49.tar.xz
 sha256  16d9daaafbf63a31a5bdc91d4600972548fef5aaa1244202393288dbd079c49a  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.mk b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
index e215d70f7f..adc0a1f1c9 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.mk
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.48
+LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.49
 LIBPNG_SERIES = 16
 LIBPNG_SOURCE = libpng-$(LIBPNG_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBPNG_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng$(LIBPNG_SERIES)/$(LIBPNG_VERSION)