diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 01e92b2b39..e44b3423ff 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1845,7 +1845,7 @@ libQt5WebEngine.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5 qt5-webengine-5.4.0_1
 libQt5WaylandClient.so.5 qt5-wayland-5.4.0_1
-libx265.so.43 x265-1.5_1
+libx265.so.51 x265-1.6_1
 libQt5Xdg.so.1 libqtxdg-1.0.0_1
 liblxqt-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-0.8.0_1
 liblxqtmount-qt5.so.0 liblxqt-mount-0.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 602dbcb67e..902d713748 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=1.5
+version=1.6
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
-wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-9f0324125f53"
+wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-cbeb7d8a4880"
 hostmakedepends="yasm cmake"
 short_desc="Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=da226cbe56938f85d5a3d123d1f5ca895795f2eac794e45af4b70047e03d8648
+checksum=b6e5ba47fce63d10d3678803e8427755e7b9fb8c6aa619e1a3ff3f4fc62b3382
 
 x265-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"