diff --git a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
index 3592540703..96be214fd3 100644
--- a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
+++ b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases
-sha256  8245bb4dae59333461f19ca0c79a829081f07972fa5e3ad4c2b2b917dd71d96b  selinux-python-3.5.tar.gz
+sha256  e2867d4cd26f9869c55216cc20ca7d10442491a0fbf256116ade99ec39426ec0  selinux-python-3.6.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license file
 sha256  204d8eff92f95aac4df6c8122bc1505f468f3a901e5a4cc08940e0ede1938994  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
index 7505474aa4..84fc9cbc22 100644
--- a/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
+++ b/package/selinux-python/selinux-python.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION = 3.5
+SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION = 3.6
 SELINUX_PYTHON_SITE = https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/$(SELINUX_PYTHON_VERSION)
 SELINUX_PYTHON_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 SELINUX_PYTHON_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE