diff --git a/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.hash b/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.hash
index 20bb1c641b..2ed73472de 100644
--- a/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.hash
+++ b/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  d3861e4fe89131bd21fbd25cf0b683b727b5c030c4c336fadcd738ada830aab0  genext2fs-1.5.0.tar.gz
-sha256  32b1062f7da84967e7019d01ab805935caa7ab7321a7ced0e30ebe75e5df1670  COPYING
+sha256  b8aba9af48e664fa60134af696a57b3bb4ebd2b2878533d7611734e90b883ecc  genext2fs-1.6.2.tar.gz
+sha256  edaef632cbb643e4e7a221717a6c441a4c1a7c918e6e4d56debc3d8739b233f6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.mk b/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.mk
index adfa412e66..c2c7abbaf5 100644
--- a/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.mk
+++ b/package/genext2fs/genext2fs.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GENEXT2FS_VERSION = 1.5.0
+GENEXT2FS_VERSION = 1.6.2
 GENEXT2FS_SITE = $(call github,bestouff,genext2fs,v$(GENEXT2FS_VERSION))
 GENEXT2FS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 GENEXT2FS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING