diff --git a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.SlackBuild
index 9e1b97e549..cb321e181b 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=${VERSION:-1.5.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
index f34c8b6f70..943ed549c6 100644
--- a/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
+++ b/gis/Fiona/Fiona.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="Fiona"
-VERSION="1.5.1"
+VERSION="1.6.0"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/archive/1.5.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="af9840142f295a2b7fd43e10eb755b96"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/archive/1.6.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="8c6aa26205ce51d3da7215ae55075c58"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="Cython gdal six"