diff --git a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild
index cb321e181b..c4c0f5fe49 100644
--- a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild
+++ b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=Fiona
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
index 943ed549c6..9a066de275 100644
--- a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
+++ b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="Fiona"
-VERSION="1.6.0"
+VERSION="1.6.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/archive/1.6.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="8c6aa26205ce51d3da7215ae55075c58"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/archive/1.6.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="1a6dd033f408c8041710948c494b6d7e"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="Cython gdal six"