diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index cb45f74354..854948bd9e 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1848,7 +1848,7 @@ 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.51 x265-1.6_1
+libx265.so.59 x265-1.7_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 62335d3de1..a37abbe30f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'x265'
 pkgname=x265
-version=1.6
-revision=3
+version=1.7
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_wrksrc="source"
-wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-cbeb7d8a4880"
+wrksrc="multicoreware-x265-8425278def1e"
 hostmakedepends="yasm cmake"
 short_desc="Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=b6e5ba47fce63d10d3678803e8427755e7b9fb8c6aa619e1a3ff3f4fc62b3382
+checksum=133dd4d7121116e75c1664e2295d61c36dee7569718a714f37caefc5a1a521db
 nocross=yes
 only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"  # CMakeList is utterly broken.