diff --git a/package/vala/vala.hash b/package/vala/vala.hash
index 7f3a099940..b3716f0854 100644
--- a/package/vala/vala.hash
+++ b/package/vala/vala.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.4.sha256sum
-sha256  ecde520e5160e659ee699f8b1cdc96065edbd44bbd08eb48ef5f2506751fdf31  vala-0.52.4.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.14.sha256sum
+sha256  9382c268ca9bdc02aaedc8152a9818bf3935273041f629c56de410e360a3f557  vala-0.56.14.tar.xz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  5df07007198989c622f5d41de8d703e7bef3d0e79d62e24332ee739a452af62a  COPYING
diff --git a/package/vala/vala.mk b/package/vala/vala.mk
index 94e18d349b..415d996faa 100644
--- a/package/vala/vala.mk
+++ b/package/vala/vala.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.52
-VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).4
+VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.56
+VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).14
 VALA_SITE = http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/$(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR)
 VALA_SOURCE = vala-$(VALA_VERSION).tar.xz
 VALA_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+