diff --git a/academic/bcftools/bcftools.SlackBuild b/academic/bcftools/bcftools.SlackBuild
index 5f99c3f222..d5f5e0561b 100644
--- a/academic/bcftools/bcftools.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/bcftools/bcftools.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=bcftools
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.15.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.16}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/academic/bcftools/bcftools.info b/academic/bcftools/bcftools.info
index 6ac9c62f49..eb85383c4a 100644
--- a/academic/bcftools/bcftools.info
+++ b/academic/bcftools/bcftools.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="bcftools"
-VERSION="1.15.1"
+VERSION="1.16"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.htslib.org"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/samtools/bcftools/releases/download/1.15.1/bcftools-1.15.1.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="37e0cbdbcbeb844b8592f4a2acb2fe3f"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/samtools/bcftools/releases/download/1.16/bcftools-1.16.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="e72d4ec55a7a27933165ff60388d4f39"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="htslib"