diff --git a/community/directfb/PKGBUILD b/community/directfb/PKGBUILD
index 01fe2e921..a676f3606 100644
--- a/community/directfb/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/directfb/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 #  - disable mesa, add rules for our architectures
 
 pkgname=directfb
-pkgver=1.6.3
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=1.7.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.directfb.org"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ license=('LGPL')
 depends=('gcc-libs' 'libjpeg' 'sdl' 'libpng' 'freetype2')
 options=('!libtool')
 source=(http://www.directfb.org/downloads/Core/DirectFB-${pkgver%.*}/DirectFB-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
-sha1sums=('0433c5999044ec9701481a92e50c0760cdb50c41')
+sha1sums=('095852479098a55be2b0c6a0250af4159ee16e7c')
 
 build() {
   cd DirectFB-${pkgver}