diff --git a/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.hash b/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.hash
index caacf70e45..889f6d1d6c 100644
--- a/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.hash
+++ b/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	95d112f06393806116341d593bda002c8bc44119c1538407623268fed90d8c34	linuxconsoletools-1.7.0.tar.bz2
-sha256	8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643	COPYING
+sha256  bd4d4b7e37da02fc67e47ddf20b6f1243c0a7af7b02b918d5e72138ea8727547  linuxconsoletools-1.7.1.tar.bz2
+sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.mk b/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.mk
index f26d874d96..306a5b1fa0 100644
--- a/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.mk
+++ b/package/linuxconsoletools/linuxconsoletools.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_VERSION = 1.7.0
+LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_VERSION = 1.7.1
 LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_SOURCE = linuxconsoletools-$(LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/linuxconsole
 LINUXCONSOLETOOLS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+