diff --git a/package/gsl/gsl.hash b/package/gsl/gsl.hash
index 0d40a75497..153ae4131d 100644
--- a/package/gsl/gsl.hash
+++ b/package/gsl/gsl.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  b782339fc7a38fe17689cb39966c4d821236c28018b6593ddb6fd59ee40786a8  gsl-2.6.tar.gz
+sha256  dcb0fbd43048832b757ff9942691a8dd70026d5da0ff85601e52687f6deeb34b  gsl-2.7.1.tar.gz
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gsl/gsl.mk b/package/gsl/gsl.mk
index 3604f9836c..575cb75462 100644
--- a/package/gsl/gsl.mk
+++ b/package/gsl/gsl.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GSL_VERSION = 2.6
+GSL_VERSION = 2.7.1
 GSL_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gsl
 GSL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 GSL_LICENSE = GPL-3.0