diff --git a/packages/c-ares/build.sh b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
index 56ab426a2..1f76c9068 100644
--- a/packages/c-ares/build.sh
+++ b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://c-ares.haxx.se
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for asynchronous DNS requests (including name resolves)"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.15.0
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.16.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/archive/cares-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION//./_}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7deb7872cbd876c29036d5f37e30c4cbc3cc068d59d8b749ef85bb0736649f04
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b045ef78cda05edd4c677ab351f209315aab8fb041051031bdbe185aaf74baf3
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="c-ares-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="c-ares-dev"
 # Build with cmake to install cmake/c-ares/*.cmake files: