diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
index 8ba6cf2f4f..43fe2ea23e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qemu-user-static/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'qemu-user-static'
 pkgname=qemu-user-static
-version=1.6.0
+version=1.6.1
 revision=1
 wrksrc="qemu-${version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config automake python"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://qemu.org"
 license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=3132e58ada26d43b6924e8c2f07db80aa1e5022f3dcf03dee7d8bb9194b2cb48
+checksum=fc736f44aa10478223c881310a7e40fc8386547e9cadf7d01ca4685951605294
 
 do_configure() {
 	./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \