diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
index 56aa4befda..5438dc26c9 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59248304/
-sha256  73eb6b1d421b5986866ad4a6b777c1140a39005298c63bf847de537976cbfbdb  fetchmail-6.5.7.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59252134/
+sha256  7b9c19e6683e827d556751aa5db5d44b961e87be8b3087535b4909ba1b59321c  fetchmail-6.6.0.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  a502ffd59034feee7e924b29500451b984992ae361bd8084736afc470f32135a  COPYING
diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
index 7e49760cac..4aac0408c6 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.5
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).7
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.6
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).0
 FETCHMAIL_SOURCE = fetchmail-$(FETCHMAIL_VERSION).tar.xz
 FETCHMAIL_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_$(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR)
 FETCHMAIL_LICENSE = GPL-2.0; some exceptions are mentioned in COPYING