diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-xgboost/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-xgboost/PKGBUILD
index febc982d08..c384d125d1 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-xgboost/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-xgboost/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # Maintainer: Guoyi Zhang <guoyizhang at malacology dot net>
 
 _pkgname=xgboost
-_pkgver=1.5.2.1
+_pkgver=1.6.0.1
 pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
-pkgver=1.5.2.1
+pkgver=1.6.0.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Extreme Gradient Boosting'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ optdepends=(
   r-vcd
 )
 source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('290c8d6a6912988ea228b18629a2f23db46213ad9875521726f5c17e6b1eb18e')
+sha256sums=('9ae99a20997e1b02ffd21cabada2a55e53f5754746238ee900de5eb6cd964ebd')
 
 build() {
   R CMD INSTALL ${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz -l "${srcdir}"