diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
index 0a5790a1a5..8b1cd63a73 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Upstream .sha256 from GitHub
-sha256  e35d5c5f55019976302ac9818890bd6b6858db257506f0e9afaa718a8dee9cc3  sysklogd-2.6.1.tar.gz
+sha256  40a3bb593d7507e49a4379f48ae8a9bc4b68dcc583efcdbf3b9056128442c92a  sysklogd-2.6.2.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  7a71d7603a7c4456df441463e54da35acf151c1be0879246de63544f1f34f477  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
index 86bd4ef168..eeb3a3748d 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.6.1
+SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.6.2
 SYSKLOGD_SITE = https://github.com/troglobit/sysklogd/releases/download/v$(SYSKLOGD_VERSION)
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE