diff --git a/package/mtd/mtd.hash b/package/mtd/mtd.hash
index a2133e3ce2..9926a34a80 100644
--- a/package/mtd/mtd.hash
+++ b/package/mtd/mtd.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/mtd-utils-2.1.5.tar.bz2.asc
-sha256  386e27fd121699b6b729bc2e8e04dda987b31cca6b16e12fb6cc6dcf26449f46  mtd-utils-2.1.5.tar.bz2
+# https://infraroot.at/pub/mtd/mtd-utils-2.1.6.tar.bz2.asc
+sha256  c1d853bc4adf83bcabd2792fc95af33bdd8643c97e8f7b3f0180af36af76f0e5  mtd-utils-2.1.6.tar.bz2
 sha256  dcc100d4161cc0b7177545ab6e47216f84857cda3843847c792a25289852dcaa  COPYING
diff --git a/package/mtd/mtd.mk b/package/mtd/mtd.mk
index db2b104586..998cc419b3 100644
--- a/package/mtd/mtd.mk
+++ b/package/mtd/mtd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MTD_VERSION = 2.1.5
+MTD_VERSION = 2.1.6
 MTD_SOURCE = mtd-utils-$(MTD_VERSION).tar.bz2
 MTD_SITE = ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils
 MTD_LICENSE = GPL-2.0