diff --git a/network/wget/wget.desc b/network/wget/wget.desc
index afe009b3c..ec4f13b5b 100644
--- a/network/wget/wget.desc
+++ b/network/wget/wget.desc
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.15
+[V] 1.16
 [P] X -?---5---9 112.400
 
-[D] 1185165561 wget-1.15.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/
+[D] 2276580115 wget-1.16.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/