diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
index 12612ecc48..52ad4856ca 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/58797299/
-sha256  75109a1f307b538155fa05f5ef298e8298cb4deae95aed24c16b38d36ff0a186  fetchmail-6.4.39.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/58840916/
+sha256  ca3fdb95141c277aca109be77f4d45b47e03ee010043058dd90bc182db518d4a  fetchmail-6.5.1.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  6d87443b61041067a5eddb2cabf8aebff15b8b40771ad6b5e4754e607ec21b39  COPYING
+sha256  1d5eb054414ceb75e018e2830d2c2b61d3ac0df02d5376330766237a091ea771  COPYING
diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
index a9239d0855..077f395760 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.4
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).39
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.5
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).1
 FETCHMAIL_SOURCE = fetchmail-$(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