diff --git a/community/pybind11/PKGBUILD b/community/pybind11/PKGBUILD
index 43949014a..cbec5ac2c 100644
--- a/community/pybind11/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/pybind11/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 #  - disable lto via -DCMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION=OFF
 
 pkgname=pybind11
-pkgver=2.6.2
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=2.7.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa'
 arch=('any')
 url='https://pybind11.readthedocs.org/'
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ makedepends=('cmake' 'boost' 'eigen' 'python' 'python-setuptools' 'python-pytest
              #'python-sphinx' 'python-sphinx_rtd_theme' 'python-breathe')
 checkdepends=('python-numpy' 'python-scipy')
 source=("https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/v${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('8ff2fff22df038f5cd02cea8af56622bc67f5b64534f1b83b9f133b8366acff2')
+sha256sums=('6cd73b3d0bf3daf415b5f9b87ca8817cc2e2b64c275d65f9500250f9fee1677e')
 
 build () {
     cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ build () {
         -Wno-dev
     make -C "${srcdir}/build-cmake" all mock_install
     
-    # manpage (needs python-sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter - currently on AUR)
+    # manpage (needs python-sphinxcontrib-{moderncmakedomain,svg2pdfconverter})
     # make -C "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/docs" man
 }
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ package() {
     # symlinks
     local _pyver
     _pyver="$(python -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" %sys.version_info[0:2])')"
-    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr"/{include,lib/cmake}
+    install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr"/{include,lib/cmake}
     ln -s "../lib/python${_pyver}/site-packages/pybind11/include/pybind11" "${pkgdir}/usr/include/pybind11"
     ln -s "../../lib/python${_pyver}/site-packages/pybind11/share/cmake/pybind11" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cmake/pybind11"