diff --git a/academic/bedtools/bedtools.SlackBuild b/academic/bedtools/bedtools.SlackBuild
index 968e58da99..7492f3d12f 100644
--- a/academic/bedtools/bedtools.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/bedtools/bedtools.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for bedtools
 
-# Copyright 2014 Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
+# Copyright 2014-2015 Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=bedtools
 DIRNAM=bedtools2
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.21.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.22.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/academic/bedtools/bedtools.info b/academic/bedtools/bedtools.info
index d1080797df..dc152d23d6 100644
--- a/academic/bedtools/bedtools.info
+++ b/academic/bedtools/bedtools.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="bedtools"
-VERSION="2.21.0"
+VERSION="2.22.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://bedtools.readthedocs.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2/releases/download/v2.21.0/bedtools-2.21.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="42cf57a5f110e06aa666aed58e0c3064"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2/releases/download/v2.22.1/bedtools-2.22.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="101c16371e0fd0bb88d55c206e1436d8"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""