diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.hash b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
index 22c794d07b..3bdd1e5e33 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.hash
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.12.tar.gz.sha1
-sha1  40d43e98f149e13e6c81eee813e6734f23413a01  memcached-1.6.12.tar.gz
+# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.16.tar.gz.sha1
+sha1  724f31c3462fb6b07264d72d0043fd65545fd84a  memcached-1.6.16.tar.gz
 
 # Locally computed
-sha256  f291a35f82ef9756ed1d952879ef5f4be870f932bdfcb2ab61356609abf82346  memcached-1.6.12.tar.gz
+sha256  3051a93bf1dd0c3af2d0e589ff6ef6511f876385a35b18e9ff8741e4a1ab34da  memcached-1.6.16.tar.gz
 sha256  bc887c4ad8051fe690ace9528fe37a2e0bb362e6d963331d82e845ca9b585a0c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.mk b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
index 842c0b42fa..5249195c2e 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.mk
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.12
+MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.16
 MEMCACHED_SITE = http://www.memcached.org/files
 MEMCACHED_DEPENDENCIES = libevent
 MEMCACHED_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_prog_cc_c99='-std=gnu99'