diff --git a/package/vlc/vlc.hash b/package/vlc/vlc.hash
index 0f1b6dccd7..628dad74d9 100644
--- a/package/vlc/vlc.hash
+++ b/package/vlc/vlc.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
-# From http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.5.1/vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz.md5
-md5 7ab63964ffec4c92a54deb018f23318b vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz
-# From http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.5.1/vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz.sha1
-sha1 042962dba68e1414aa563883b0172ee121cf9555 vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz
-# From http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.5.1/vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz.sha256
-sha256 b28b8a28f578c0c6cb1ebed293aca2a3cd368906cf777d1ab599e2784ddda1cc vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz
+# From http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.6/vlc-2.2.6.tar.xz.sha256
+sha256 c403d3accd9a400eb2181c958f3e7bc5524fe5738425f4253d42883b425a42a8  vlc-2.2.6.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/vlc/vlc.mk b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
index 7f0c4f5978..47fb3e80e4 100644
--- a/package/vlc/vlc.mk
+++ b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-VLC_VERSION = 2.2.5.1
+VLC_VERSION = 2.2.6
 VLC_SITE = http://get.videolan.org/vlc/$(VLC_VERSION)
 VLC_SOURCE = vlc-$(VLC_VERSION).tar.xz
 VLC_LICENSE = GPLv2+, LGPLv2.1+