diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.hash b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
index 976d88c1f5..e16823ca78 100644
--- a/package/systemd/systemd.hash
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # sha256 locally computed
-sha256  896d76ff65c88f5fd9e42f90d152b0579049158a163431dd77cdc57748b1d7b0  systemd-256.7.tar.gz
+sha256  2600db41d9ebd717ca786d754d17699038147b8fddaf15fc935f775a06c0df92  systemd-256.16.tar.gz
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  LICENSE.GPL2
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  LICENSE.LGPL2.1
 sha256  e5a8645ad94aab24e312dd0c6be2aa54236eb9374480b1b14ea5c61598874fd5  LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt
diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.mk b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
index 71fe0de550..bf0f2c1e90 100644
--- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # - Diff sysusers.d with the previous version
 # - Diff factory/etc/nsswitch.conf with the previous version
 #   (details are often sprinkled around in README and manpages)
-SYSTEMD_VERSION = 256.7
+SYSTEMD_VERSION = 256.16
 SYSTEMD_SITE = $(call github,systemd,systemd,v$(SYSTEMD_VERSION))
 SYSTEMD_LICENSE = \
 	LGPL-2.1+, \