diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
index a1ba00db94..90f4bbdcb4 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ansible
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.6.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.6.5}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/system/ansible/ansible.info b/system/ansible/ansible.info
index e483cce676..e17c876ea6 100644
--- a/system/ansible/ansible.info
+++ b/system/ansible/ansible.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="ansible"
-VERSION="2.6.4"
+VERSION="2.6.5"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.ansible.com"
-DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="4922a636226f6e39fb414460cc85999d"
+DOWNLOAD="https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.5.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="1fc26706c95a38d72a4c91b8a40abdf2"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="paramiko PyYAML Jinja2"