diff --git a/packages/golang/build.sh b/packages/golang/build.sh
index 5a3cafc36..9d6316705 100644
--- a/packages/golang/build.sh
+++ b/packages/golang/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://golang.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Go programming language compiler"
-_MAJOR_VERSION=1.6beta2
+_MAJOR_VERSION=1.6rc1
 # Need to be considered a higher version than "1.5rc1":
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1:$_MAJOR_VERSION
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${_MAJOR_VERSION}.src.tar.gz