diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
index c4b968a89a..9408aacacc 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59238340/
-sha256  f989b62729c76afbcd65ec43b9c477f2d990f0913da141ff8166aa4e2bf56025  fetchmail-6.5.5.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59241831/
+sha256  ec10e0e0eaa417313559379ede76c74614766d838b39470b66474863aa690dab  fetchmail-6.5.6.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  a502ffd59034feee7e924b29500451b984992ae361bd8084736afc470f32135a  COPYING
diff --git a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
index 3eec63f071..e7539c5d98 100644
--- a/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
+++ b/package/fetchmail/fetchmail.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR = 6.5
-FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).5
+FETCHMAIL_VERSION = $(FETCHMAIL_VERSION_MAJOR).6
 FETCHMAIL_SOURCE = fetchmail-$(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