diff --git a/package/traceroute/traceroute.hash b/package/traceroute/traceroute.hash
index cf2eb127a2..5619338848 100644
--- a/package/traceroute/traceroute.hash
+++ b/package/traceroute/traceroute.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  05ebc7aba28a9100f9bbae54ceecbf75c82ccf46bdfce8b5d64806459a7e0412  traceroute-2.1.3.tar.gz
+sha256  9ccef9cdb9d7a98ff7fbf93f79ebd0e48881664b525c4b232a0fcec7dcb9db5e  traceroute-2.1.6.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license files:
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/traceroute/traceroute.mk b/package/traceroute/traceroute.mk
index 133f8d3c3e..bd246e5f9e 100644
--- a/package/traceroute/traceroute.mk
+++ b/package/traceroute/traceroute.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TRACEROUTE_VERSION = 2.1.3
+TRACEROUTE_VERSION = 2.1.6
 TRACEROUTE_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/traceroute/traceroute/traceroute-$(TRACEROUTE_VERSION)
 
 TRACEROUTE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1+