diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
index 59e6e6be3d..6cb8568a61 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ansible
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.5.5}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.5.6}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.info b/system/ansible/ansible.info
index 929f8927a3..b36808556a 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.info
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="ansible"
-VERSION="2.5.5"
+VERSION="2.5.6"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.ansible.com"
-DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.5.5.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="df4a5818476cda9c29373f0b86d883ce"
+DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.5.6.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="13c2240a2ec3964347c435ba6b04ac89"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="paramiko PyYAML Jinja2"