diff --git a/package/libnvme/libnvme.hash b/package/libnvme/libnvme.hash
index a57a5b3958..66dedbbe8f 100644
--- a/package/libnvme/libnvme.hash
+++ b/package/libnvme/libnvme.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated sha256 checksums
-sha256  c21cd9379390bdc52c9d9569a241274f8115fc247b76a5d922d639f48c8174a2  libnvme-1.15.tar.gz
+sha256  5bb24139a113f350708fe54073e799f454d509218758060c398144b91811d176  libnvme-1.16.tar.gz
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libnvme/libnvme.mk b/package/libnvme/libnvme.mk
index b576feb1ab..238b7041da 100644
--- a/package/libnvme/libnvme.mk
+++ b/package/libnvme/libnvme.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBNVME_VERSION = 1.15
+LIBNVME_VERSION = 1.16
 LIBNVME_SITE = $(call github,linux-nvme,libnvme,v$(LIBNVME_VERSION))
 LIBNVME_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1
 LIBNVME_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING