diff --git a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
index 76fd4d1372..e4c7393be1 100644
--- a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=x265
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.0}
-REVISION=${REVISION:-72188bd2f034}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.1}
+REVISION=${REVISION:-acce27790559}
 SRCNAM=multicoreware
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
diff --git a/multimedia/x265/x265.info b/multimedia/x265/x265.info
index e367073ade..8a6537426f 100644
--- a/multimedia/x265/x265.info
+++ b/multimedia/x265/x265.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="x265"
-VERSION="3.0"
+VERSION="3.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html"
-DOWNLOAD="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/3.0.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="c11362327231a19588ed4a4f2ae5a9eb"
+DOWNLOAD="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/get/3.1.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="11eb520bfc6929e2ee7e4c0349c9120f"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""