diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 4a17de9e88..bd32fe4d07 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ libprotobuf-vala.so.0 libprotobuf-vala-0.1.0_1
 librlog.so.5 librlog-1.4_1
 libtinyxml.so.0 tinyxml-2.6.2_1
 libbluray.so.1 libbluray-0.2.3_1
-libnfs.so.4 libnfs-1.9.5_1
+libnfs.so.8 libnfs-1.9.7_1
 libzip.so.2 libzip-0.10.1_1
 libapp.so.0 libapp-20110513_1
 libluajit-5.1.so.2 LuaJIT-2.0.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libnfs/template b/srcpkgs/libnfs/template
index a734e8b78d..26d4da1118 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libnfs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libnfs/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libnfs'
 pkgname=libnfs
-version=1.9.6
+version=1.9.7
 revision=1
 wrksrc="${pkgname}-${pkgname}-${version}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs/archive/$pkgname-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=75f49d967e9032e0ee4757f970f87c274c3503c968caba2be8a37df63d965f32
+checksum=7c2e088f5fd85b791ab644a5221b717894208bc5fb8b8a5a49633802ecaa0990
 
 pre_configure() {
 	autoreconf -fi