diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index c54d35af29..d88b2a6be5 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ libmemcached.so.11 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libhashkit.so.2 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libmemcachedutil.so.2 libmemcached-1.0.18_1
 libc-client.so.1 c-client-2007f_1
-libonig.so.2 oniguruma-5.9.6_1
+libonig.so.3 oniguruma-6.0.0_1
 liblo10k1.so.0 alsa-tools-1.0.29_1
 libgflags.so.2 gflags-2.1.2_1
 libgflags_nothreads.so.2 gflags-2.1.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template b/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
index cd925a83cc..d8dcb8ffb8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/oniguruma/template
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Template build file for 'oniguruma'
 pkgname=oniguruma
-version=5.9.6
-revision=5
+version=6.0.0
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="A multi-charset regular expressions library"
 maintainer="John Regan <john@jrjrtech.com>"
 license="BSD"
 homepage="http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/releases/download/v${version}/onig-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum="d5642010336a6f68b7f2e34b1f1cb14be333e4d95c2ac02b38c162caf44e47a7"
+checksum=0cd75738a938faff4a48c403fb171e128eb9bbd396621237716dbe98c3ecd1af
 wrksrc="onig-${version}"
 
 post_install() {