diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.hash b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
index 7901f82c3a..ae28eee087 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.hash
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.55/
-sha1  13f7bedf27009e59961f823cc779a5f9f5341a91  libpng-1.6.55.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.56/
+sha1  71eb3636e60b6ea66f2f670cdf1f7160b7a1fa8b  libpng-1.6.56.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  d925722864837ad5ae2a82070d4b2e0603dc72af44bd457c3962298258b8e82d  libpng-1.6.55.tar.xz
+sha256  f7d8bf1601b7804f583a254ab343a6549ca6cf27d255c302c47af2d9d36a6f18  libpng-1.6.56.tar.xz
 sha256  bdb0a645ea18c60507d0368379b1ac5474b92255fcc2d115e07486a7672ba526  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.mk b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
index 01c1cbbec7..7c5bc35a77 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.mk
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.55
+LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.56
 LIBPNG_SERIES = 16
 LIBPNG_SOURCE = libpng-$(LIBPNG_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBPNG_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng$(LIBPNG_SERIES)/$(LIBPNG_VERSION)