diff --git a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
index e366f19038..c9f7acfd01 100644
--- a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
+++ b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  b7eda59fd7bc3cb97fdac14e8455e86ddad75006d69270358ac8d00108e369a9  bcm2835-1.68.tar.gz
+sha256  c062a8a1cf1dc1ba1ca3978451d2f668b66f7ce5548200a0f4a8bb2117b1b2c9  bcm2835-1.70.tar.gz
 sha256  8b1ba204bb69a0ade2bfcf65ef294a920f6bb361b317dba43c7ef29d96332b9b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
index 1ddd035818..e9d7256f19 100644
--- a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
+++ b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BCM2835_VERSION = 1.68
+BCM2835_VERSION = 1.70
 BCM2835_SITE = http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835
 BCM2835_LICENSE = GPL-3.0
 BCM2835_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING