diff --git a/package/diffutils/diffutils.hash b/package/diffutils/diffutils.hash
index 7e99f1fc65..5506ab275a 100644
--- a/package/diffutils/diffutils.hash
+++ b/package/diffutils/diffutils.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	dad398ccd5b9faca6b0ab219a036453f62a602a56203ac659b43e889bec35533	diffutils-3.5.tar.xz
+sha256 d621e8bdd4b573918c8145f7ae61817d1be9deb4c8d2328a65cea8e11d783bd6  diffutils-3.6.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/diffutils/diffutils.mk b/package/diffutils/diffutils.mk
index dee3faca18..4662e2bc3a 100644
--- a/package/diffutils/diffutils.mk
+++ b/package/diffutils/diffutils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DIFFUTILS_VERSION = 3.5
+DIFFUTILS_VERSION = 3.6
 DIFFUTILS_SOURCE = diffutils-$(DIFFUTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 DIFFUTILS_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/diffutils
 DIFFUTILS_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext)