diff --git a/extra/icu/PKGBUILD b/extra/icu/PKGBUILD
index e4968102c..a6f268afc 100644
--- a/extra/icu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/icu/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #  - patch to fix icudata library linking on ARM
 
 pkgname=icu
-pkgver=55.1
+pkgver=56.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="International Components for Unicode library"
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ source=(#http://download.icu-project.org/files/${pkgname}4c/${pkgver}/${pkgname}
 	    http://download.icu-project.org/files/${pkgname}4c/${pkgver}/${pkgname}4c-${pkgver//./_}-src.tgz
 	    icu.8198.revert.icu5431.patch
             icudata-stdlibs.patch)
-md5sums=('e2d523df79d6cb7855c2fbe284f4db29'
+md5sums=('c4a2d71ff56aec5ebfab2a3f059be99d'
          'ebd5470fc969c75e52baf4af94a9ee82'
          '4e5202245fce364490334bd66b5edabc')