diff --git a/package/automake/automake.hash b/package/automake/automake.hash
index b194c3c2bc..e8112e0c48 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.hash
+++ b/package/automake/automake.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 af6ba39142220687c500f79b4aa2f181d9b24e4f8d8ec497cea4ba26c64bedaf  automake-1.15.1.tar.xz
+sha256  80facc09885a57e6d49d06972c0ae1089c5fa8f4d4c7cfe5baea58e5085f136d  automake-1.16.4.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
-sha256 ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
+sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/automake/automake.mk b/package/automake/automake.mk
index ad8f0f474d..470a0bd46e 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.mk
+++ b/package/automake/automake.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.15.1
+AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.16.4
 AUTOMAKE_SOURCE = automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOMAKE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/automake
 AUTOMAKE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+