diff --git a/packages/parallel/build.sh b/packages/parallel/build.sh
index 079351aa0..03d1027f3 100644
--- a/packages/parallel/build.sh
+++ b/packages/parallel/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more machines"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=20160922
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=20170122
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=417e83d9de2fe518a976fcff5a96bffe41421c2a57713cd5272cc89d1072aaa6
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="perl"
 TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=yes