diff --git a/extra/bird/PKGBUILD b/extra/bird/PKGBUILD
index e56e5d7c7..c041fb5b7 100644
--- a/extra/bird/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/bird/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 pkgbase=bird
 pkgname=('bird' 'bird6')
-pkgver=1.5.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=1.6.0
+pkgrel=1
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url='http://bird.network.cz/'
 license=('GPL2')
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ depends=('readline' 'ncurses')
 source=("ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
         'bird.service'
         'bird6.service')
-md5sums=('330bde6372afa106abfe5a9737e471c1'
+md5sums=('4c92ec3548a2a120243879b6ef7046dd'
          '69221e063a3f07dcad519d5eeacaae75'
          '5b172bd052b523efd95ee018e891e181')