diff --git a/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.SlackBuild b/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.SlackBuild
index bf7d0f5f0c..e4fce412eb 100644
--- a/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=SimGear
 SRCNAM=simgear
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2016.4.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2017.1.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.info b/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.info
index a0d193eb90..bee9f1eb95 100644
--- a/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.info
+++ b/libraries/SimGear/SimGear.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="SimGear"
-VERSION="2016.4.4"
+VERSION="2017.1.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://wiki.flightgear.org/SimGear"
-DOWNLOAD="https://download.sourceforge.net/project/flightgear/release-2016.4/simgear-2016.4.4.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="73875a8c5d767dc5ea063932e65b54bd"
+DOWNLOAD="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/flightgear/release-2017.1/simgear-2017.1.1.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="7108da756038934662b4d3131b31a3e9"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="OpenSceneGraph freealut plib"