diff --git a/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.SlackBuild b/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.SlackBuild
index 02b176b1e4..1ac086703e 100644
--- a/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.SlackBuild
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM="fail2ban"
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.10.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.11.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ fi
 # install logrotate script
 install -D -m 0644 files/fail2ban-logrotate $PKG/etc/logrotate.d/fail2ban.new
 
-# make directory for socket, pid file & db file
-mkdir -p $PKG/var/{run,lib}/fail2ban
+# make directory for db file
+mkdir -p $PKG/var/lib/fail2ban
 
 # remove /usr/share/doc
 rm -fr $PKG/usr/share/doc
diff --git a/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.info b/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.info
index 9663fc7f8c..74bc0d4172 100644
--- a/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.info
+++ b/network/fail2ban/fail2ban.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="fail2ban"
-VERSION="0.10.4"
+VERSION="0.11.2"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.4/fail2ban-0.10.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="5df67c74c14e6da26df8e798deefca13"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.11.2/fail2ban-0.11.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="dbeaad971a1127320b949b0f29d7b1f9"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""